COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

The Friday Report – Issue 70

The Friday Report is our regular update (currently monthly) with a summary of the key papers, analyses and data that we’ve looked at recently. In Friday Report 70 we look at:

  • UK autumn booster vaccines
  • Prevalence of variants with BA.5 dominating
  • Paxlovid for treating Omicron
  • Long Covid numbers decreasing in the UK
  • Heart disease after Covid-19
  • The QCovid4 prediction tool
  • How the UK’s 2021 Covid-19 projections compared with reality
  • Direct and indirect health impacts of Covid-19
  • Data – ONS infection study, hospitalisations, CMI excess deaths

And finally, over in the US, is 81 the new retirement age?

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Adele Groyer

Research and Analytics Actuary - Gen Re

Adele Groyer is a Research and Analytics Actuary at Gen Re. She was previously responsible for the UK and Ireland pricing team, conducting general research and producing client-specific quotations for Life, Disability, Long Term Care and Critical Illness business. She is a member of the CMI Assurances Committee. Before joining Gen Re in 2008, she worked for Old Mutual in South Africa. Adele holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town and became a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2005.

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Matthew Fletcher

Senior Consultant - AON

Matt has over 20 years’ consultancy experience, including over 10 years as a specialist in mortality and longevity. He works in Aon’s Demographic Horizons team, advising insurance companies and pension funds on setting best estimates and evaluating risk for longevity and other demographic assumptions, both in the UK and overseas.

Matt chairs the CMI Self-Administered Pension Schemes (SAPS) Committee, which produces mortality tables that are used extensively in the pensions and insurance industries.

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