This webcast session will focus on recent issues in mortality. In the first half, Al Klein and Jean-Marc Fix will look at the latest COVID data with a focus on mortality and explore reinsurance mortality issues beyond the normal pandemic framework. In the second half, Alexandre Boumezoued and Jean-Marc will present and discuss a mortality improvement forecasting model and tool from a recently released SOA study project. The model builds on a previously released causes of deaths model but includes an additional cause of death projection, a specific look at higher socio-economic classes through an analysis of US counties by a combination of income related measures.