Bulletin 57 | Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver and John Roberts
COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group provides a regular Friday update with a summary of the key papers and articles that we’ve looked at recently.
In this report:
- Population heterogeneity and herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2
- Age specificity of IFR for COVID-19
- Comparison of testing strategies for COVID-19 control
- Association of race with mortality for those hospitalised with COVID-19
- Hydroxychloroquine as post-exposure prophylaxis
- Risk factors for positive and negative COVID-19 tests
- Diabetes and COVID-19
- Tocilizumab
- T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2
- ONS surveys