Bulletin 131 | 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:
- The JCVI’s position on vaccination of younger teenagers
- Third doses for the immunosuppressed
- Early data on boosters in Israel
- Waning of vaccine efficacy
- New variants – C.1.2 and ‘Mu’
- Variant statistics in England
- Baricitinib for COVID-19 treatment
- Monitoring actual v predicted hospitalisations
- Data – infection study, antibodies (ONS), R (HSA)
And finally, for our 50th Friday Report, we’ve compiled some of the team’s favourites from the last 18 months – snakes, romantic novels, nasal magnets and …