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COVID-19 Actuaries; (6th weekly report)
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID19 Actuaries Response Group read more about the outbreak than most, so we’ve decided each Friday to provide you with a curated list of … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Friday Report, Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver
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Why we’ve failed to build a national care service
Sage seem to consider the major problem in care homes the impact it is having on the R number. At least that is how it is being reported. Sage member Professor John Edmunds told the FT Covid-19 infections in hospitals … Continue reading
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Tagged CARE, Care Homes, Covid-19, long term care, NHS, Social care
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COVID-19 ; Vaccines and Antivirals
What is a vaccine? Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop protection from a disease which is achieved by essentially imitating an infection. Vaccines have historically been constructed to contain either inactivated viruses … Continue reading
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Tagged Antiviral, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Nicola Oliver, Vaccine
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COVID-19; Out of Africa?
Cases in Africa If the COVID-19 situation and outcome is far from clear and certain in countries such as UK, the same could be said with even more justification for countries in Africa. Just as questions can be asked about … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Actuaries Response Group, China, Covid-19, Dermot Grenham
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How are we reacting to the lockdown? Kings’ Policy Institute has the answer.
Kings College’s Policy institute are interested in social trends . They have asked Ipsos-Mori to do some interesting research on how people are reacting to the UK Government’s lockdown policy. Here are the highlights, there is a lot more detail … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Kings Policy Institute, KPI, Lockdown
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COVID-19 Actuaries’ May Day round up
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID19 Actuaries Response Group read more about the outbreak than most, so we’ve decided each Friday to provide you with a curated list of the … Continue reading
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Risk factors for COVID-19
Introduction A primary objective of epidemiology in respect of any disease is to establish the ‘risk factors’ that affect morbidity (succumbing to the disease) and mortality (dying from the disease). For most established diseases, for instance major cancers or … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Matt Edwards, pensions
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COVID-19 ; International Comparisons
How does the UK stack up against other countries? Chris Daykin has been finding out. Introduction Comparisons between countries of the progress of COVID-19 are complicated by the different effective starting points in different countries and because the number … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Actuaries Response Group, Chris Daykin, Covid-19, GAD
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How COVID-19 kills
This is what we see More than 190k people have died of COVID-19 worldwide to date. In EU/EEC countries about 30% of infected people require hospitalisation and 4% go into intensive care units (ICU)1. Of those hospitalised, 12% died. Those … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group, immune system, Joseph Lu, lung
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Metropolitan evacuees may not be welcome
One of the conversations I have with my brothers who live in Shaftesbury in Dorset is how little they think of second-homers from London. I am beginning why those in the South West fear the influx of Londoners. In Covid-19 … Continue reading