The five percent of people in Britain predicted by a new tool to be at highest risk from Covid-19 accounted for three-quarters of deaths during the first wave of the pandemic, researchers reported Wednesday.
As countries worldwide grapple with a second wave of disease, the risk-assessment method — which also predicts the chances of hospitalisation — could help identify the small percentage of the population most in need of being shielded from the virus, they reported in BMJ, a medical journal.
“The tool provides nuanced information on people’s risk of serious illness due to Covid-19 and is designed for use by clinicians with patients to reach a shared understanding of risk,” the authors said in a statement.
To develop the new application, called QCOVID, researchers from across Britain compiled data from six million patients, including age, height-weight ratio, ethnicity, and pre-existing conditions — such as high-blood pressure and diabetes — known to increase the risk of serious outcomes after infection.
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What do they need a tool for? For any person over a certain age, entry to a hospital is an automatic death sentence. Any person who still carries a donor card if anything happened to them their organs could go to good use – is dead upon arrival as soon as they got such a card (which started about 30 years ago). Any person who doesn’t have a family or a hatzalah member as a staff in the hospital comes out of there in a body bag. At least this is how it is in the US and Israel except for Laniado.
and in the UK and Canada
Awesome, why do you go to the hospital? Stay home, or even better, set up your own hospital. We all look forward to seeing it.
Aha. Interesting. And what about those that donate a kidney? Where do they do that? In the living room or a Hospital?