Want to Calculate your Covid age?

[KihoBebiluPute]

Apologies if there is already a thread for this, I checked the Covid topic list of thread titles but couldn't see one.

Calculate your Covid Age here

This table starts with your actual age and then adds (or subtracts) years according to your particular vulnerabilities, which gives you a "Covid Age". So if you are actually 35 but have a Covid age of 75, you should be treated as having the same vulnerability as an otherwise-healthy 75 year old. Scrolling down the page further it then gives estimated risk and fatality rates for the covid age you come up with.

I found this useful.

Thanks, OP, DH and I both came in the 50-70 group, He is 59 and I am 62 so all good really. It looks like some quite young people could have a quite old Covid age

I’m 31 but came in at 42 because of my BMI

I’m a 30-something again! (Actually 41 but being female pulls me down and am ridiculously healthy so nothing to pull me back up again.)

Am wondering if I should change my outfit to something more appropriately young as I am now back in my 30s.....

31 and my real age is 30. -5 for being female and +6 for being slightly overweight.

Mine is lower than my actual age so I’m happy.

Covid 39, but I'm actually 44.

I'm 49 but my covid age is 44. Pretty happy with that!

I'm 5 years lower (white, female, bmi of 26)

I can't look at the table properly on my ancient device. Does it assess your general level of fitness anywhere like "can you walk briskly for a mile" ? Surely your basic general daily activity and fitness levels are significant when calculating this? Or maybe not the way they have set it up? Does anyone know?

I'm 32 covid age is 27!

Mine's five years younger than my true age so I'm happy with that!

I'm 44 and 10 months covid age 45. Pretty ok with that could be worse!

-5 for being female, +5 for being a bit fat, back to my own age!

@Spreadingcomfrey

I can't look at the table properly on my ancient device. Does it assess your general level of fitness anywhere like "can you walk briskly for a mile" ? Surely your basic general daily activity and fitness levels are significant when calculating this? Or maybe not the way they have set it up? Does anyone know?

Exactly! I'm in my early 50s but my covid age is almost 70! I walk 5 miles a day and consider myself to be very fit; apparently not!

Fat and 40s so end up on 50s. I never quite know what "moderate" rather than vhigh risk means in terms of if I got it. I just escaped shielding the first time.

Im also not able to walk briskly.... (see above) I really dont want to get it but need kids to go to school etc. We're trying to minimise risk again outside of that.

Reassurung asthma is only 1!? Although depends how they define asthma. I have a steroid inhaler but it didnt end up counting as severe for sheilding purposes so I counted it as mild.

I'm 48 but my coverage is 61

I read being mixed race is the same risk as being white....

I knocked 5 years off my life. Cool.

I’m 50 but Covid age is 64!

Please note that it does change quite frequently depending on ongoing research findings. For example, those with asthma previously had to add more years but as time has gone on studies have shown those with cardiovascular issues, diabetes etc are at higher risk of serious complications from Covid so the ‘years to be added’ have increased for those groups and reduced for those other than severe asthmatics.

It is also not an exact science and the whole picture needs to be looked at. For example a very young person may be undergoing chemo but will struggle to reach a high Covid risk age category in this but they would still be deemed as high risk. It is used as a guide only for employment advice.

Ooh I'm back in my 20s. Will be telling everyone I am 26 again

36 and Covid age 63

34, covid age 29

I'm 41, covid age is 75. Good thing I'm very strict about distancing etc.

I am 50 but Covid age is 63