Tag Archives: Stuart McDonald

Stuart McDonald MBE

Posted on December 17, 2022 by henry tapper

Stuart McDonald received his MBE for services to Public Health from King Charles on Wednesday. Pictures can say 1000 words, this blog only needs two more Congratulations Stuart.

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

Posted on April 28, 2022 by henry tapper

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

Posted on January 8, 2022 by henry tapper

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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Architects of our own demise?

Posted on October 12, 2021 by henry tapper

We get the Governments we deserve, that’s my view of how the democratic process works. We got a Government in late 2019 to “get Brexit done” and within a few weeks , that Government was confronted by a pandemic , … Continue reading →

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How logical is the UK’s vaccine priority ordering?

Posted on December 8, 2020 by henry tapper

By Yifei Gong and Stuart McDonald COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. Summary Nine groups in the UK have been prioritised to be vaccinated in the first phase. In this bulletin, we consider the logic of the … Continue reading →

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What’s going on in our hospitals? – Stuart McDonald dives into the latest data.

Posted on September 27, 2020 by henry tapper

Stuart McDonald is lucid, generous and understands how to use social media. He has kept his powder dry over the safer months of summer, but now the winter chill is upon us, he is back turning data into the insights … Continue reading →

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“Are we experiencing a second wave?” – asks Stuart McDonald

Posted on September 17, 2020 by henry tapper

  By Stuart McDonald for                                                                       … Continue reading →

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“Pandemics are catalysts for change- #buildbackbetter” (Stuart McDonald)

Posted on June 21, 2020 by henry tapper

In his most confident thread yet, Stuart McDonald (@actuarybyday) looks again at the weekly data provided by ICNARC and focusses on two key issues, the particular impact on British BAME communities and the statistical congruence between high levels of poverty … Continue reading →

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Stanford’s Contrasting Fatality Estimates

Posted on May 22, 2020 by henry tapper

Stuart and Matthew   “Estimating the Global Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19” – Grewelle, De Leo The authors have sought to provide a first estimate of the global IFR using a novel method and data from multiple countries. It seems … Continue reading →

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Stuart McDonald updates us on Icnarc and CV-19

Posted on May 17, 2020 by henry tapper

  Latest @ICNARC report was released last night. Here’s a summary on behalf of @ICS_updates and @COVID19actuary, with thanks to @NicolaMedical for holding virtual pen last week. Update includes 449 new patients (8,699 total); 717 new outcomes (6,860 total). Full … Continue reading →

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