The Friday Report - Issue 19

Bulletin 57 | Matt Fletcher, Nicola Oliver and John Roberts

COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group provides a regular Friday update with a summary of the key papers and articles that we’ve looked at recently.

In this report:

• Population heterogeneity and herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2

• Age specificity of IFR for COVID-19

• Comparison of testing strategies for COVID-19 control

• Association of race with mortality for those hospitalised with COVID-19

• Hydroxychloroquine as post-exposure prophylaxis

• Risk factors for positive and negative COVID-19 tests

• Diabetes and COVID-19

• Tocilizumab

• T-cell response to SARS-CoV-2

• ONS surveys

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