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Oct 01 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 30

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Two pretty interesting studies on vax versus unvaxed cases and infection protection versus that from vax, and some other summaries.
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Sep 30 2021

Week-Over-Week Analysis, September 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The epidemic trend in Minnesota appears pretty flat as we headed toward the middle of September, based on the week-over-week change analysis.
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Sep 30 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Finally, sort of caught up on the research, with more on variants, vaccines, modeling, endemicity and other fascinating topics.
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Sep 29 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 28

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Trying to catch up on actual research, lot of vaccine and some miscellaneous studies.
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Sep 28 2021

Breakthrough Infections, September 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary 23 Comments
The latest breakthru data reveals a rapid uptrend in proportion of events among the vaxed.
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Sep 28 2021

CDC Brings the Garbage

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The CDC continues to work on cementing its reputation as the worst producer of research in the world.
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Sep 27 2021

Proportion of Deaths in the 65 and Over Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
After an initial dip, the proportion of deaths in the over 65 group is returning to its former level.
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Sep 27 2021

Long-term Care Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An updated look at long-term care resident and staff cases.
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Sep 27 2021

Cohort Analysis, September 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at the cohort analysis shows remarkable stability, taking testing levels into account.
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Sep 27 2021

Epidemic Overview, September 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The current case wave in Minnesota looks a lot like the spring one so far. Hard to tell which way it goes next.
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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.
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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
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MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
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March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
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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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