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.

29 "the Brighton line" lol

I think it's odd that the table asks you to add years for every situation except one - being female.

It would have made more sense to have female as the default and add years for being male, as it increases your risk.

Don't be silly covidthrowaway - male is always default.

Really, really wish I hadn't done this!

But making female the default and adding 5 for male doesn't give the same outcome.
My mum is 60 with no underlying conditions, so covid age is 55.
Step dad is 57 with underlying conditions which make his covid age 60+ so he needs to be 'more careful' than her.

Unless I've misremembered 60 is the age at which you need to start being more cautious? Even if its not there will be people who cross that age divide depending on if they are female or not.

I'm 5 years younger, oh is 5 years older. The family I worry about the most have terrible outcomes on this.

I’m wondering why a high BMI has more impact when you are young then when you are older.....

29 and I'm 24 🤷‍♀️

I meant I'm 29 and my covid year is 24..

I’ve also been extreme surprised that having an organ transplant Gives you less points than being overweight.
Seeing that the medication makes you extremely vulnerable to ANY infection, it looks wrong tbh (plus the fs t these people have always been on the very highly vulnerable list too)

My covid age is my actual age. My health conditions are wiped out by being female. If I was younger the health conditions would add more years. I wonder how this was worked out.

I'm 38, covid age is 45.

Former, they'd solve that by making 65 the age at which risk increases...

Well it would solve it for my parents. But then a couple who are 5 years old let than them would still have the same issue surely?

Thank you OP this is actually very helpful and really puts some of the risk factors into perspective. I'm 38 but Covid age is 48 due to obesity (and I'm female). I've been steadily loosing weight but had a baby nine months ago so it's all taking much longer than I'd like (will power is low when I've had no sleep and biscuits are in the house) and frankly I've been very worried about how vulnerable I am given my weight despite my age.
I'm still in the low risk group which makes me very happy and maybe that knowledge will ease some of the pressure off and I can try to move from extreme restrictive dieting to an overall healthier way of living.

Pregnancy doesn't seem to be mentioned or am I missing it? I am pregnant so suddenly CV when I wasn't before - surely this should up my age?

Odd that risks attached to smoking aren't included.

It doesn't take into account immunosupressant medication.

According to the Zoe covid app research seems to be suggesting theres no extra risk from covid in pregnancy.

@PaperMonster

I’m 51 and my Covid age is 62 due to T2D which is diet controlled, so my HBA1C is not in the diabetic range.

Yes, mine is diet controlled too, & under 58 - so I found it worrying that it still adds 16 years to my Covid age.

Add in weight & possible hypertension & mine is between 76 & 83 With fuck all I can do about it.

I already eat strictly low carb, I do IF. I exercise, I cannot lose weight.

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@Gingerkittykat

I've got a covid age of 85, I knew I was high risk but this has worried me.

Yes, I did it about a week ago and it really freaked me out, proof of what I already knew though. I'm surprised I wasn't asked to shield. Though I personally decided to virtually shield (I was dropping food off to my Aunt in her 90's, and walking (fairly rural) but that was it - shopping delivered, furloughed).

I work with teenagers, so I think I'll have to speak to my GP about being made officially shielding if numbers give up where I live - though I'm not sure how much it'll help with my job 🙇🏻‍♀️ & I can't afford to lose it. - so will probably have to muddle on. (Me & teens wearing masks, ventilating the room, hand sanitising).

[quote Caroian]I’m 40 but my Covid age is more than twice that. Interestingly though the BMA risk stratification tool gives me a “low risk” score (3). The main difference being the high weighting on this one given to eGFR

@caroian

Each point doubles your risk over a woman under 40 with no complications - so a score of isn't actually low risk I'm not sure why they've named them so carelessly. I would say it's 'lower increased risk' than some people, but still significantly higher risk than a femal under 40 with no additional risk factors.