How Do You Even Calculate COVID-19 Risk Anymore?

If you are immunocompromised, elderly or have an underlying medical condition (or live with anyone who fits into these categories), you’re working with a different set of variables than someone who is younger and healthier.

  Science Brief: Evidence Used to Update the List of Underlying Medical Conditions Associated with Higher Risk for Severe COVID-19

Conditions on this list have been shown to be associated with severe illness from COVID-19. This list might change and, upon review as the science evolves, CDC might update it.

  Three Most Dangerous Underlying Conditions for COVID-19

Obesity, Diabetes (with complications such as organ damage), High blood pressure (with complications such as heart damage or kidney disease).

 COVID-19: Why is it mild for some, deadly for others?

Among the confounding aspects of the novel coronavirus is the wide range of disease severity patients experience. While a minority of COVID-19 patients require hospitalization, the effects of infection for these people are dramatic and in some cases life threatening.

 Covid’s Risk to Older Adults

Ready to give up on the pandemic? Spare a moment to think about older people.

 Going Out and Worried About Covid Safety? There’s a Calculator for That

Age + vaccination status + number of guests + ZIP code + activity = Should I even leave the house?

 How Do You Even Calculate COVID-19 Risk Anymore?

If you are immunocompromised, elderly or have an underlying medical condition (or live with anyone who fits into these categories), you’re working with a different set of variables than someone who is younger and healthier.

 Living with Covid-19

As has been the case throughout the pandemic, everyone’s risk calculus will be different, and no activity is totally risk-free. But we have some advice from experts about how they’re thinking about risk, and what it will take to go back to “normal.”

 See how age and illnesses change the risk of dying from covid-19

Our risk model estimates chances of death and hospitalisation based on age, sex and comorbidities.

 Study of 17 Million Identifies Crucial Risk Factors for Coronavirus Deaths

The largest study yet confirms that race, ethnicity, age and sex can raise a person’s chances of dying from Covid-19.

 This Calculator Estimates Your Risk of Getting Covid-19

The online tool draws on recent data to approximate your chances of contracting the virus in different scenarios.

 Vaccination cuts the risk of long COVID in half

New research from the UK shows that breakthrough infections are not only rarer, but also less likely to persist.

 We have to accept some risk of Covid-19

The coronavirus may never truly go away.

 Who is at High Risk for Serious COVID-19?

People who are considered at high risk may develop more serious symptoms of COVID-19. This depends on their health history and how long they have had symptoms. People at high risk may be eligible for mAb treatment.

 Why Racism, Not Race, Is a Risk Factor for Dying of COVID-19

Public health specialist and physician Camara Phyllis Jones talks about ways that jobs, communities and health care leave Black Americans more exposed and less protected.

My Covid Risk

A partnership of Lifespan and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Created by emergency physicians...

Covid and Age

An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.

COVID-19 Risks and Impacts Among Health Care Workers by Race/Ethnicity

This analysis provides greater insight into COVID-19 risks and impacts among health care workers and how they vary by race and ethnicity.

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

Children are at much lower risk of Covid-19 than adults. But what does that actually mean?

Individuals at Higher Risk

Everyone is at risk for getting COVID-19 if they are exposed to the virus, but some people are more likely than others to become severely ill.

Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection

Although myocarditis and pericarditis were not observed as adverse events in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine trials, there have been numerous reports of suspected cases following vaccination in the general population.

The Risk of Vaccinated COVID Transmission Is Not Low

After my son got sick, I dived into the data, and it turns out vaccinated people can and do spread COVID.

Vaccination reduces risk of long Covid, even when people are infected, U.K. study indicates

The research is among the earliest evidence that immunization substantially decreases the risk of long Covid even when a breakthrough infection occurs. Already, researchers had said that by preventing many infections entirely, vaccines would reduce the number of cases of long Covid, but it wasn’t clear what the risk would be for people who still got infected after vaccination.

What Is Your Risk Of Dying From Covid-19?

No matter how the data are sliced and diced, it is clear that seniors face the greatest risk from Covid-19, whether measured in terms of the population-level risk of dying from it, the infection fatality risk if they are unlucky enough to contract the virus, or the loss of healthy life expectancy attributable to this disease.

What Science Knows Now About the Risk of Covid-19 Transmission on Planes

New research has uncovered when chances are higher, including during meal service. Overall risks appear to remain relatively low, but newer variants may change that equation.

Who's Hit Hardest By COVID-19? Why Obesity, Stress And Race All Matter

As data emerges on the spectrum of symptoms caused by COVID-19, it's clear that people with chronic health conditions are being hit harder. While many people experience mild illness, 89% of people with COVID-19 who were sick enough to be hospitalized had at least one chronic condition. About half had high blood pressure and obesity, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And about a third had diabetes and a third had cardiovascular disease.

Why people with mental illness are at higher risk of COVID

The risk of death from COVID-19 went up by 50% for those with a history of mental illness compared to those with no such history, says Li, who is now the Chief Medical Officer at the Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD in Texas.

Why pregnant women face special risks from COVID-19

Biology explains why “the first ones who need the masks are pregnant women”

Your covid-19 risk: How to navigate this new world of uncertainty

Baffling statistics and their impact on our emotions can make it hard to evaluate risk in this pandemic. But there are simple steps you can take to put risk in context and feel more confident in your decisions.