COVID-19 Update – October 30

Dear Colleagues,

Please note our Covid-19 Updates will be on Fridays. Actuarial News will appear on Tuesdays.

Weekend reading:

• RGA: Challenges of COVID-19 Mortality Data (ActuView)
• The Actuary (IFoA): Deaths in England and Wales in line with pre-pandemic trend
• UN News: Caribbean vital to tackling COVID-19, climate change, UN chief tells regional leaders
• CARPHA:
  • Caribbean Public Health Agency unites with Tourism to Launch Unique Health Assurance Stamp and Mobile App to Protect Tourism
  • CARPHA Urges the Caribbean To Increase Efforts to Prevent and Control Mosquito Borne Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • CARPHA Partners with the EU and PAHO to Ensure Caribbean States’ Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
• CNW: Jamaica to Launch New Insurance Scheme to Benefit Tourists
• IMF Weekend Read: United Kingdom | COVID’s Inequality Effect | Sub-Saharan Africa | Middle East and North Africa | Green Firms
• NY Times: Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation
• The Guardian: Understanding how ‘overdispersion’ works is key to controlling Covid
• El Pais: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air
• CDC: Trends in COVID-19 Incidence After Implementation of Mitigation Measures — Arizona, January 22–August 7, 2020
• NY Times: Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus
• Nature Medicine: A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine
• UNICEF: What you need to know about a COVID-19 vaccine
• BBC: Coronavirus vaccine: When will we have one

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