COVID-19 Data and Modeling

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;"> Tune in Listeners!</span><span style= "font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; word-spacing: 0px;"> We have a special episode today of our Research Insights Podcast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> The SOA is a proud member of the International Actuarial Association and today’s podcast is the product of a collaboration with the IAA’s Pandemics Task Force.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Hear Matthew Edwards, Senior Director at Willis Towers Watson, an actuary, and during the pandemic Chair of the UK’s Continuous Mortality Investigation, talk about COVID-19 data and modeling.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;"> For more research on COVID-19 see:<span style= "mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <a href= "https://www.soa.org/resources/research-reports/2020/impact-coronavirus/"> https://www.soa.org/resources/research-reports/2020/impact-coronavirus/</a> </span></p>