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  • October 2020
  • 9 minutes

Challenges of COVID-19 Mortality Data

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This video was developed in conjunction with actuview, the first permanent international media platform for actuaries (www.actuview.com). actuview content reflects contributions from actuarial institutions, corporate partners and industry professionals. RGA is actuview’s sponsoring partner.

It can be difficult to compare data efficiently between different countries, particularly when there are issues with differences in data sources and formats, the availability and completeness of the data, as well as the varying definitions of a COVID-19 death. This short talk highlights some of the problems with analyzing COVID-19 mortality data and discusses steps to enable consistent reporting.

This video was developed in conjunction with actuview, the first permanent international media platform for actuaries (www.actuview.com). actuview content reflects contributions from actuarial institutions, corporate partners and industry professionals. RGA is actuview’s sponsoring partner.

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For related topics, see also: COVID-19 Brief: Go Wide, Go Small, and Go with the Flow and COVID-19 Mortality Rates by Age and Gender

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Kishan Bakrania
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