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The Impact of Covid-19 on Future Higher-Age Mortality and what impact this might have on future mortality (17/05/2021)
Topics to be discussed:
- How is Covid-19 mortality experience compared with all-cause mortality
- The future mortality prospects for those who survive the pandemic will looked at. A simple model will be presented that allows to explore this question. In the absence of secondary effects of the pandemic, survivors are likely to be healthier than the pre-pandemic population, with a corresponding small increase in life expectancies
Speaker:
Prof Andrew J.G. Cairns FRSE
Maxwell Institute, Edinburgh, and
Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
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