The Friday Report - Issue 25

Issue 25 | By Matt Fletcher, John Roberts, Dan Ryan

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:

• Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world

• Vaccines on hold

• Effectiveness of anti-viral drugs

• Healthcare acquired infections in hospital

• COVID-19 and anti-coagulation

• Nature: Report on Excess Mortality

• ONS Surveillance report

• ONS analysis of mortality by ethnicity

• R estimate

• Great Barrington and John Snow