All about risk
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Description: Regularly updated tracker of vaccine administration, in the U.S. and globally.
Date accessed: 24 January 2021
Date last updated: 23 January 2021
Author:
Publication Site: Bloomberg
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Description: Tableau dashboards from the CDC showing weekly updated data, with the following dashboards:
Weekly Excess Deaths
Excess deaths with and without COVID-19
Excess deaths with and without weighting
Number of Excess Deaths
Percent Excess Deaths
Weekly Number of Deaths by Age
Weekly Number of Deaths by Race/Ethnicity
Change in Number of Deaths by Race/Ethnicity
Weekly Number of Deaths by Cause Group
Weekly Number of Deaths by Cause Subgroup
Change in the Number of Deaths by Cause
Total number above average by cause
Total number above average by jurisdiction/cause
Also, downloadable data.
Example from 24 January 2021:
Data last updated: 21 January 2021
Regularly updated on Wednesdays, usually
Publication Site: CDC
Link: https://www.dailyherald.com/submitted/20201003/16-year-old-passes-several-soa-exams
Description: High schooler sat multiple Society of Actuaries exams and passed them.
Author: Raj Rathi
Publication Date: 5 October 2020
Publication Site: Daily Herald
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Description: Weekday updates of total and COVID-mortality counts by state (New York City split out separately, Puerto Rico included.) Table 1 has counts of deaths involving COVID-19 and other select causes of death by time-period in which the death occurred. All data downloadable.
Last updated: 22 January 2021
Accessed: 24 January 2021
Publication site: CDC
Link: https://www.ai-cio.com/news/democrats-introduce-bill-protect-pensions-expand-pgbcs-power/
Description: Bill introduced in House of Representatives – EPPRA (Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021) intended for multiemployer pension protection. Boosts PBGC MEP guarantee, stops benefit reductions, allows for partition of failing MEPs. Similar provisions had been in HEROES bill in 2020 (not passed).
Author: Michael Katz
Publication Date: 22 January 2021
Publication Site: ai-CIO
Description: 2020 survey results from modeling actuaries on time-wasting activities.
Publication Date: 16 January 2021
Publication Site: SLOPE
Description: U.S. 2020 Homicide rate increased a lot. Some people are mystified.
Publication Date: 16 January 2021
Publication Site: The Economist
Description: Homicides rose about 45% from 2019 to 2020 in New York City.
Author: Ben Chapman
Publication Date: 7 January 2021
Publication Site: WSJ
Description: U.S. homicide rates increased about 37% in major urban areas during 2020.
Author: CHERYL CORLEY
Publication Date: 6 January 2021
Publication Site: NPR
Link: https://heyjackass.com/2020-homicide-trend/
Description: Bar graph of Chicago homicides, 2009-2020, plus table of those wounded in gun violence in Chicago.
Publication Date: last updated, 1 January 2021 (site owner first posted in January 2020, and updated throughout the year.)
Publication Site: HeyJackass!
Description: Total homicide statistics for Chicago, 2020
Publication Date: 1 January 2021
Publication Site: HeyJackass!
Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-19-death-toll-is-even-worse-than-it-looks-11610636840
Graphic:
Description: Estimating global excess mortality, and comparing against official COVID death counts. As of date of publication, official COVID deaths globally were about 2 million (excluding: China and India, and many other large countries), while excess deaths for 2020 were about 2.8 million.
Authors: Paul Overberg, Jon Kamp and Daniel Michaels
Graphs by: Lindsay Huth
Publication Date: 14 January 2021
Publication Site: Wall Street Journal