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Apr 22 2020

Some Quick Late Night Story Hits to Help You Sleep

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The coronavirus isn't that bad, but mass starvation is.
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Apr 22 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part Cuatro

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I try to keep up with the flood of coronavirus research.
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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

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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
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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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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

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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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