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Apr 22 2020

The Issues With How Minnesota’s Model Works, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Now an explanation of how the model handles mitigation of spread issues.
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Apr 22 2020

The Issues With How Minnesota’s Model Works, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this post we see how people move from Infected to their final destination in the Minnesota epidemic model.
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Apr 22 2020

More Pablum from the Governor

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Sorry, more not so Minnesota nice words for our Governor.
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Apr 22 2020

Floating on Coronavirus Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few quick coronavirus summaries.
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Apr 21 2020

The Issues With the Minnesota Model, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In part 2 of our discussion about Minnesota epidemic model issues, we track movement from of the population into Exposed and Infected buckets.
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Apr 21 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part Tres

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Interrupting our irregularly scheduled series of posts on the Minnesota model to pick up a few other tidbits of interest.
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Apr 21 2020

The Issues With How Minnesota’s Model Works, Part I

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The first in a series trying to help people understand the Minnesota model of the epidemic, with a focus on the logic of the model flow in this post .
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Apr 21 2020

Jay Battacharya is a Stanford University based physician and economist.  We shared a video of a discussion with him on coronavirus issues a couple of weeks ago.  Here is a followup in which he talks about where we are now, including his work on antibody prevalence studies and the need to take into account the health harms of the lockdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7v2F3usNVA&list=PLq8BgDugd2oyqmYx6RdVlJfQeAdhJkhc3
Apr 20 2020

We Are Destroying Our Health Care System

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The evidence mounts that the extreme lockdown is devastating the health care sector along with other industries.
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Apr 20 2020

More and More Evidence of the True Infected Rate

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Los Angeles County study for antibodies to coronavirus finds that there are 28 to 55 times more cases than are shown by testing.
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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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