Tag Archives: Covid

Stand on your own two feet – says Andy Haldane.

In today’s world of “polycrises”, we can hope for renewed macroeconomic moderation, or a spontaneous growth spurt…..hope is not a prudent policy strategy. It is time to reconfigure our safety nets, in finance and beyond, and reinvigorate capitalism in anticipation … Continue reading

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Autumn booster update from the Covid-19 actuaries.

Autumn booster update By Andrew Pijper, Dr Rebecca Sloan COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence.   Latest key findings The Autumn booster programme began on 12 September 2022 for those aged 75+ and vulnerable patients. It was … Continue reading

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C19 actuaries report on the ongoing toll Covid is taking on the nation’s health – bulletin 72

                                                                                                                         http://www.covidactuaries.org Friday Report: Issue 72   By: Adele Groyer, John Roberts, Dan Ryan & Matt Fletcher Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence.   Covid-19 is still among the most important health topics for scientific papers … Continue reading

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COVID actuaries bring us August and august news!

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Stretched and leaderless – “pensions” lurch into another crisis

This sums up how I feel as we approach the end of the week…. pic.twitter.com/6mTf90oxty — Angela Brooks (@ANGIEBROOKS11) August 11, 2022 Do you remember back to January/ February 202? We’d all had another great year in 2019 and we … Continue reading

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For those who should be alive and loving, alive and loved.

    One great sadness of the pandemic is the loss of life of thousands of elderly people discharged from hospitals into care homes where they both died and spread the pandemic to others who died. This was known to … Continue reading

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So how do we feel about Covid now?

Yesterday’s blog from the Covid 19 Actuarial Response Group , remarks – almost in passing Since our last update two weeks ago prevalence in England is estimated to have increased from 4.9% to 7.6%, which is its highest figure recorded. … Continue reading

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The secret to Omicron’s success and more – C19-ARG’s Friday report 58

Friday Report: Issue 58 By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer, Matt Fletcher and Dan Ryan   www.covid-arg COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID-19 Actuaries … Continue reading

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Living in a major incident

The  orange line tells us why Sadiq Khan has declared a”major incident” in London. COVID-19 hospital admissions in London continue to accelerate, with 7-day average now up 42% week-on-week. Elsewhere increases are smaller, with falls in the East and Midlands. … Continue reading

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Will we win the war on Covid but lose the peace on Care?

Two important events happened to me yesterday evening, I was boosted and I heard the news that the Commons had passed the first reading of the social care bill. As this is a personal blog, I feel entitled to conflate … Continue reading

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