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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Hospitalizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As with cases, using accurate population sizes introduces massive changes in relative risk numbers for the 65 and over group.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Relative risk charts, as used by Minnesota DOH, can be another way of showing vax effectiveness, or ineffectiveness.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events, As of Week of December 8, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated assessment of epidemic events in the age 65 and over subgroup, showing that currently there is very little benefit from vax or boosting.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events As of Week of December 8, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this age group there also is very little current protection from vax or boosting.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events as of the Week of December 8, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final adult age group shows limited protection of vax and boosting against serious disease.
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Dec 12 2022

RSV in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The massive RSV wave that hit Minnesota's children is a result of the lockdown and isolation policies of little Timmy Walz.
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Dec 11 2022

Breakthrough Events, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Same old same old on the breakthrough reports, in terms of raw numbers it is all about the vaxed and the boosted.
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Dec 11 2022

Regional Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A look across the US finds no evidence of any significant CV-19 wave.
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Dec 11 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The evidence does not suggest we are having a CV-19 wave, notwithstanding some fear-mongering by our esteemed public health officials.
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Dec 08 2022

“Unprecedented Warmth”, or at Least Unprecedented BS

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new study using old DNA shows that Greenland was far, far warmer as recently as a million years than it is today.
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Dec 08 2022

The Structure of the Health Care Industry in America

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
All aspects of America's health care system have concentrated markets which is the major factor in our high prices and high health spending.
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Dec 08 2022

Renewable Energy is a Fantasy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Battery storage is perhaps the most delusional aspect of the ludicrous notion that humanity would be better off using "renewable" energy.
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Dec 07 2022

The Epidemic and Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Children suffered incredible damage to their health, including mental health, and social and educational development as a result of the epidemic response.
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Dec 07 2022

Health Care Price Inflation is Just Beginning

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new report gives a good background on health care's contribution to inflation.
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Dec 07 2022

A Final Comment on the 2022 Mid-Terms

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Trump has been a disaster for the Republican party in the midterms and needs to exit quickly.
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
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The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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September 25, 2025
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September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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