The Friday Report - Issue 55

Bulletin 136 - Matt Fletcher, Adele Groyer, John Roberts and 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 fortnightly update with a summary of the key papers and analyses that we've looked at recently.

This week we report:

• Vaccine progress - boosters and young people

• Compulsory vaccines for NHS staff

• Antibodies - duration, waning, breakthrough infection, prevalence and antibody type

• Changing attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination

• Self-perception of long COVID

• Modelling

• Alpha vs. Delta

• Home deaths

• Non-COVID excess deaths

• R

And finally, a Greek tragedy....