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Jul 12 2022

A Couple More Quick Climate Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Long-term studies of earth's climate reveal temperature shifts far more dramatic than anything which is or isn't occurring today.
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Jul 12 2022

Age Structure Charts, Population Rates, July 11

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A population rate look at epidemic events by age group. Note that the age groups now have to mirror the vax groups used by DOH.
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Jul 12 2022

Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers, July 11

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The age structure of the epidemic by raw numbers of events.
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Jul 12 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another big picture look at the epidemic. No dramatic moves.
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Jul 11 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough data under the new DOH format.
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Jul 09 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 151

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A pretty good selection of studies for another set of research summaries.
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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates by age group under the new data set. Check out 0 to 4 case and hospitalization rates. What has happened recently to that age group.
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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The shift to weekly reporting causes a little gymnastics but we can keep doing the age structure reporting.
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Jul 08 2022

LTC and non-LTC Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
LTC resident deaths have risen as a proportion of all deaths, due to waning vax effectiveness and refreshing of the vulnerable pool.
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Jul 07 2022

The Country Is Dividing Itself

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We are surely and more rapidly becoming a country segregated by politics.
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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...
June 1, 2021
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

Headlines

Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 2026
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026

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About This Blog

The 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 through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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