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Jun 29 2022

Breakthrough Events Age 65 and Over, June 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Boosters appear to have the most effectiveness in the elderly, who are most at risk.
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Jun 29 2022

Breakthrough Events Ages 50 to 64, June 27

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For this age group, no protection of boosters against infection, but some protection against hospitalization.
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Jun 29 2022

Breakthrough Events Age 18 to 49, June 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this age group being boosted is associated with a greater risk of infection, but offers some protection against hospitalization.
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Jun 29 2022

Breakthrough Events Age12-17, June 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Not much point in vaccinating 12 to 17 year-olds either.
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Jun 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, Ages 5 to 11, June 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A series of age group posts on breakthroughs follows, starting with 5-11 year olds, where vaccination is pointless anyway.
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Jun 28 2022

Breakthrough Events, June 27

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Another week, another decline in booster effectiveness.
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Jun 27 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 148

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A vaccine heavy research summary day.
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Jun 26 2022

More Wokeness in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Deloitte joins the woke brigade on inequities in health care, providing us with a made-up report on supposed cost consequences.
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Jun 25 2022

State-Mandated Indoctrination

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's state bird is the loon and our Governor Walz, the Incompetent Blowhard hisself, is promoting real lunacy by requiring that teachers be experts in racist theories and take a…
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Jun 25 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, June 24

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another set of week-over-week charts that reveal a pretty much flat trend.
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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
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MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 2026
Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
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...
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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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