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Living longer despite everything
When I run around London, I often find myself passing the Covid wall and seeing each heart filled with the name of a loved one who has died in the current pandemic. The Covid memorial wall is perhaps unique. … Continue reading
Is Covid a blip or will it make us live shorter?
What does the latest CMI Mortality Projections Model tell us? By Andrew Gaches for COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. Summary The CMI’s latest mortality projections model CMI_2020, and accompanying working paper, show that users adopting the … Continue reading
Will the pandemic leave us sicker? – the Covid-19 actuaries discuss
Introduction Our recent Bulletins[i] on mortality impacts of the pandemic considered the likely (short-medium term) mortality of the surviving population, and how a mortality investigation could reasonably be done post-pandemic. In this Bulletin we consider the longer-term impacts of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gaches, Covid-19, Matthew Edwards, morbidity, mortality
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Care homes – forgotten by us- not by Covid
This article can also be found at the COVID-19 Actuaries website http://www.covid-arg.com Introduction In their weekly analysis of deaths, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the total number deaths in excess of 5-year averages in the 12 weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Covid-19, mortality, residential care
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What happened in week 10; science from the COVID Actuaries
Every week, more is written on COVID-19 than any individual could possibly read. Collectively, the COVID‑19 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 Actuaies, BAME, COVID-10, mortality, ONS, Science, The Lancet
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COVID-19 – our chances IF we survive.
Introduction Given the complexity of the question, and the different facets, we are breaking our commentary on this question into three bulletins: What is the likely mortality of the ‘survivor pool’ in the short term? What are … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Matthew Edwards, mortality, Pandemic
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People don’t have a “sell by” date
Two articles have been troubling my conscience, the first is by Debora Price and is featured on this blog. Debora champions the vitality of older people. The second article is by Ros Altmann and is on a similar theme. It … Continue reading
Should the Government be levelling with us (or not)?
Boris Johnson’s most memorable phrase, before his illness was “I want to level with you”. At that stage, telling us that people would die in British hospitals was still newsworthy. Six weeks on and telling us how many are dying … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, Covid-19, Euromomomo, Excess Deaths, Government, mortality
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Covid-19; Risk, Uncertainty, Psychology and Judgement
You can see this presentation which runs to 60 slides following Tan’s narrative The Slideshare is available to read below in plain text. By TAN SUEE CHIEH, IFoA’s President Elect Keywords Risk. People (p). Risk of mortality … Continue reading
If you’re 65 , you just got 11 months older
In 2017, the Govt used rising longevity to justify bringing forward a planned rise in the state pension age to 68 by seven years. At time, Govt said a 65-yr old could expect to live for another 22.8 years According … Continue reading
