Covid risk calculator - have your taken one?

I ask Alexa anything I don't know, especially converting metric measurements, for cooking and dress making. But I wouldn't be interested enough to ask about Covid. because I am so fed up with hearing about it. Alexa is making me very lazy though,

Wouldn't this need to be changed now anyway once we have more information on the new variant.
We still don't know if the vaccines are of any use whatsoever against it.

I won't bother looking thank you. I'm doing everything I should do. I've had all the vaccines, I don't know anyone who has had Covid. I refuse to panic about something I don't have any control over. I don't read about it and I don't listen to broadcasters who take great delight in telling us facts and figures. With the constant saturation of information it is no wonder people panic.

Mary doll I’m a similar age. It’s probably best to not look at the score out of 100 but the much lower absolute risk. Statistics understanding has never been my strong point- but the risk of catching and dying is actually quite low, even if in a higher risk category. Risk of catching Covid can be mitigated by the type of precautions most of us former shielders take. Remember young people ( and I presume children) are in among the statistics and are at very low risk from Covid so will take up the lower orders of risk in the risk curves.
I looked at my Covid risk score ( I work in the nhs) early on before vaccines were available, so it interesting to see my score (79) now I am fully vaccinated. It’s actually higher than back then - I suspect because I was advised to shield. My score before was just under 70 which meant I would have still been allowed to work face to face with patients if I had not been on the shielding list. I seem to remember that age was the main risk back in those early days- and being female took a few years off your ‘Covid age’ score. Various medical conditions add to the risk score.

To add to @Marydoll's conversion, (all approx but to nearest 2 decimal points)

1 inch = 2.5cm
1 foot = 30cm
1 pound = 453.6 grams
1 stone = 6.36kg

Also, remember, the basics are

12 inches = 1 foot
14 pounds = stone
100cm = 1 metre
1000g = 1 kilogram

There are a number of conversion calculators available online.

Overweight, CV, disabilities, 53, triple-jabbed and it gave me only 4% likelihood of contracting and dying of covid - not sure what to make of that ? I think I'll just take it all with a pinch of salt ?

Just scored 74, I too think it does not ask indepth questions but as I am slightly overweight and had a stroke 12 years ago with medication that causes weight gain the fact that I am not yet 70 and active and eat a good balanced no meat diet is ignored

Looks like I got 83 out of 100. Being old school I had to sit and work it out on the metric calculator.

Wot me, tall, slim and elegant Marydoll?????
I was very slim once, many years ago…. About 5’6, too many covid pounds and I never go anywhere requiring the faintest smatter of elegance!

That's great news GM!!!!!!

I’ve just done it and my chances of getting and dying of COVID-19 are vanishingly small… 1:19,608! Not worried at all.

GMSD, I imagined you to be tall, slim and elegant!!! I, on the other hand, am small and fat plump.

I used to be able to calculate metric conversions roughly in my head.
Unfortunately a brain turned to mush has put paid to that! .

I still remember that 1 gallon == 4.4596 litres. Could I convert in my head nowadays, absolutely not!!!

If you just type into google ‘what’s x number of stones in kg’ it will come up with the correct answer immediately. I’m forever having to do this for work when assessing overdoses. The toxbase will only accept kg.

Thanks Marydoll. I feel slightly less useless knowing you had to look it up! Perhaps subconsciously I was trying to hide from the dreadful lockdown truth!

Germanshepherdsmum

I gave up because I can’t convert my height and weight from imperial to metric without doing the maths…

Neither can I, so I used an online calculator took minutes.

www.metric-conversions.org/weight/stones-to-kilograms.htm

I gave up because I can’t convert my height and weight from imperial to metric without doing the maths…

So I did it again and it looks like it is 83 out of 100. I am a young 66, I thought I would live for ever!
Best not to dwell on it and carpe diem !!!

My DHs was 78 out of 100, mainly I suspect because he’s overweight. We’ve both had Covid so I can’t use his risk as an incentive to loose weight unfortunately.

Wìth a lot of different medical problems and indeed all 3 of us in our house with disabilities etc (youngest son was added to sheilding list last lockdown) so no ive not done it- i darent?

Mine was 65 out of 100, no conditions (they didn’t ask about BP) so I guess a lot is to do with age (70).

I went in through another site, as the questionnaire kept asking me to sign for a license.
I think it may even be higher, as I missed out my heart condition. Too depressing to go on, despite knowing it would be high!

My score was 81 out of 100.

Out of interest Marydoll, what was the percentage risk for you, obviously only if you don’t mind saying.?

Very high! I knew that anyway! ?

Just did it for DH as he has AF, his risk is low too. As a 60 year old male he has about a 1% chance of dying in any given year regardless of covid, he has a 0.002% chance of catching and dying of covid.