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Aug 16 2021

Week-Over-Week Percent Increase in Daily Cases, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trying to find another way to track trajectory, the percent change in cases for a day, week over week, has promise. Here are the initial charts.
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Aug 16 2021

Active Cases, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The active case update shows the bump but also may indicate plateauing.
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Aug 16 2021

Upper Midwest Case Trends, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A great chart to see the synchronicity of the epidemic in our region.
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Aug 16 2021

Yeah, Vaccines Are Working Pretty Good

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Some charts that suggest good effectiveness of vaccines.
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Aug 16 2021

US Excess Mortality Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Excess mortality is below expected levels at this point.
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Aug 16 2021

Regional Deaths, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And regional death trend charts. CFR way down.
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Aug 16 2021

National Death Animation, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And once more we can look at the pattern of alleged CV-19 deaths.
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Aug 16 2021

National Case Animation, August 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Watch the pretty colors change from region to region.
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Aug 15 2021

Our Uber Incompetent and Embarrassing Government

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Recent world events again reveal how pathetically incompetent and ideologically bankrupt the current administration is.
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Aug 14 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole life vaccines? No, we actually cover some other research as well today.
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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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2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
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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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