The March 2021 Future of Health Seminar delved into the health system’s most pressing problems and explored how healthcare providers, governments and insurers are using data to create better patient outcomes and improve resource efficiency.
Actuaries Digital Health Editor Zachary Tirrell previews the exciting program of the upcoming Future of Health Seminar, to be held virtually from 23-24 March 2021.
The last fortnight has been all about vaccines with the UK, US and Canada all commencing roll-out of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine after emergency use authorisation in all three countries. Research in the University of Queensland’s vaccine has been halted after study participants registered false positive HIV results. In case numbers, globally numbers of new cases continue to break new records and death numbers also increasing. Australia, however, continues to do extremely well, registering no locally acquired cases for the first time since March!
In this article, Brent Walker explores mutation and cellular entry of COVID-19 and what this might mean for future possible waves of the virus.
