Bulletin 128 | 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 –
- Vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant
- Progress with vaccination in the UK
- COVID-19 problems for people with sickle cell disease
- Monitoring hospitalisation against recent projections (LSHTM, Imperial, Warwick)
- CMI’s insights on 2020 experience for UK term assurance policyholders
- Schools: test children or isolate children?
- Data on antibodies, infectivity
- R (well above 1 in England, but not moving much)
- Excess mortality in India
And finally, the new camper van for this summer’s Zoom-themed holidays …