Description: This report provides highlights of a weekly survey of practices regarding the mitigation of the spread of COVID���19 in the U.S. during the second half of March 2021 along with comparisons to prior half���month time periods. The survey asks about the degree to which the respondents perceive that people in their community are following 21 common mitigation practices. The responses are separated by state and compared to state level statistics regarding the level of COVID���19 infections from the Johns Hopkins COVID database for the same time period.

Description: This report provides highlights of a weekly survey of practices regarding the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. during the second half of January 2021 along with comparisons to prior half-month time periods. The survey asks about the degree to which the respondents perceive that people in their community are following 21 common mitigation practices. The responses are separated by state and compared to state level statistics regarding the level of COVID-19 infections from the Johns Hopkins COVID database for the same time period.

Description: This report provides highlights of a weekly survey of practices regarding the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. during the second half of February 2021 along with comparisons to prior half-month time periods. The survey asks about the degree to which the respondents perceive that people in their community are following 21 common mitigation practices. The responses are separated by state and compared to state level statistics regarding the level of COVID-19 infections from the Johns Hopkins COVID database for the same time period.

Description: Discuss changes in group life waiver of premium claim recovery and mortality experience since the 2005 table was released, the development of the 2023 table, and the new statutory valuation standard approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impression on all forms of life, annuity, and A&H insurance. Individual and group disability insurance are no exception. Examine how U.S. group and individual disability insurers have been impacted by the pandemic and how they are preparing for an uncertain future. Oliver Wyman will team up with experts from the insurance industry to discuss insights on the impact of COVID-19 on disability insurance, including results from Oliver Wyman’s 2022 industry survey. Learn about the past, current, and future expected impacts of COVID-19 on: - Claim experience (including mortality, incidence, recovery and SSDI offsets) - Reserving - Scenario testing - Insurer operations (e.g., claims adjudication, recertification) - Sales and persistency By attending this session, you will be able to: - Understand how disability insurers have been impacted by the pandemic across multiple facets. - Identify where and how U.S. disability insurance carriers are adapting to the new and evolving environment. - Discover how carriers see disability insurance evolving as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Description: This session will bring together public health care leaders in COVID-10 vaccine delivery from both the U.S. and the UK to discuss and compare operational implications of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in their countries, and how those programs ultimately affected hospitalization utilization and mortality rates for members of their communities.

Description: Discover the impact of COVID-19 on member costs post diagnosis and the future of mortality in this Emerging Long Term COVID-19 Trends webcast. This webcast will be split up into Health and Life portions. During the Health portion of this webcasts, you will learn more about the impact on risk scores due to recent findings. Enjoy this discussion and further dive into the emerging COVID-19 trends that may affect how you conduct business practices. At the Life portion, the SOA Research Institute assembled a panel of mortality experts who will express opinions on the effects of the U.S. mortality rate for general, insured and pension populations in the short-term.

Description: The SOA is releasing this brief report which summarizes the results of the latest National Health Expenditure (NHE) data released by the U.S. Government. This report highlights some of the key elements of the 2018 NHE data and compares them to prior year data and projections.

Description: This section contains book reviews and summaries of recently published works on subjects including demography, savings in the U.S., life company state examinations, private pensions, Industrial insurance, medical care, and union welfare plans.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.