Bulletin 130 | John Roberts, Adele Groyer, Dan Ryan, Matt Fletcher
COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID‑19 Actuaries Response Group provides a regular fortnightly update with a summary of the key papers and analyses that we’ve looked at recently.
In this issue, we look at – amongst other things:
- Vaccines for 16-17 year olds
- Benefits of delaying the second dose
- Delta ‘vaccine avoiding’ infections
- Behavioural nudges to improve vaccine take-up
- SAGE’s thoughts on waning vaccine effects
- Risks of MI and stroke after COVID-19
- Increasing virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants
- Actual hospital admissions vs recent projections
- ONS antibody and infectivity reports
- CHIME: COVID-19 Health Inequalities Monitoring for England
- R is probably below 1 in England
And finally, a COVID-busting Barbie doll ….