Feeling anxious about catching Covid? Listening to mainstream...

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    Feeling anxious about catching Covid? Listening to mainstream media probably leads you to thinking you're doomed now that it is spreading in Australia. The truth may not be as bad as they would have you believe.The University of Oxford's calculator for Covid risk is here: https://qcovid.org/

    My risk is listed below. I said yes to "do you suffer from asthma?" While I usually have no asthma symptoms, it does tend to reappear when I catch a bad cold or flu.

    Absolute risk (a)Absolute risk with no risk factors (b)Relative risk (a/b)
    COVID associated death0.0015%1 in 666670.0013%1 in 769231.1538
    COVID associated hospital admission0.0365%1 in 27400.0288%1 in 34721.2674


 
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