COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

The Friday Report – Issue 74

The Friday Report is our regular update with a summary of the key papers, analyses and data that we’ve looked at recently. This is our last regular Friday Report.

In Issue 74, we look at:

  • Autumn booster progress
  • Protection after initial vaccine course – booster vs breakthrough infection
  • Pfizer vaccine authorised for children aged over 6months
  • Hospitalisation in US by vaccination status
  • mRNA applications beyond COVID-19
  • Variant prevalence – BQ.1 dominant
  • Air travel’s influence on dispersal
  • Long COVID – ONS surveillance
  • Excess deaths – WHO, Australia, UK (CMI)
  • UK stats – infectivity, care home deaths, hospitalisation, flu
  • DHSC report on the pandemic

And finally, how we’ve used Borgesian AI to summarise our recent ‘ARG AGM’ …

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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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John Roberts

Independent Consultant

John is an independent consultant who has spent 37 years in the life industry, including 17 years at Canada Life and more recently 8 years at Zurich Insurance Group, where he was part of the team that established its corporate risk business, now well established in the market. Following that he was Head of the Life Pricing team at Zurich for 5 years, overseeing a wide range of wealth and protection propositions.

At Zurich he helped establish its small pension scheme longevity swap proposition, which involved setting up simultaneous reinsurance transactions to mirror the client contracts. He has most recently continued with this line of interest as a consultant, supporting Lloyds Banking Group in establishing its first longevity swap transactions.

John is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

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