Covid’s impact has been severe and far-reaching. With Omicron’s high transmission rate and current widespread vaccination, PartnerRe has surveyed worldwide Life & Health industry experts to find out what they think about Covid’s impact on the industry thus far and what the future holds.
With the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, insurance medical directors found themselves in a position of unparalleled influence within the life and health insurance industry.
COVID-19 has now been with us for two years. It has hit the global life insurance industry hard. Although we can’t predict the ultimate course of pandemic, we expect the virus to impact global mortality in the near future.
What does COVID-19 do to lungs? RGA's Hilary Henly explores the permanent and irreversible lung damage caused by the disease, and shares different factors insurers should consider.
Could the pandemic weight-gain observations simply be an extension of the trends already occurring?
Mortality and morbidity trends among hospitalized COVID-19 survivors can shed vital light into the insurance implications of the pandemic.
No one would argue that the current pandemic caused by the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus has had a devastating impact on the world.
There was an expectation by life insurers that COVID-19 deaths would decline as vaccination rates increased throughout 2021. That has not happened.
The changes to daily life and the uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to have impacts on the mental and physical health of populations around the world. One health impact often attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic is weight gain due to decreased activity and indulgence in “comfort foods.”