COVID-19 risk assessment
What is Covid-age?
Covid-age was developed to assist health professionals when advising workers in the UK on their personal vulnerability to COVID-19, and implications for their employment. Vulnerability can be quantified as the probability of death should infection occur. It varies according to age, sex, ethnicity, the presence of other health conditions (comorbidities), and immunity from vaccination or previous infection. Covid-age summarises published evidence on the impacts of age, sex, ethnicity and comorbidities in the absence of vaccination or previous infection. It is intended for use as part of occupational health assessment of individuals’ fitness for work, and not in clinical treatment pathways.
Why Covid - 19 Risk Assessment ?
There is growing evidence that certain specific groups and characteristics make some individuals more vulnerable to COVID-19. The purpose of this health questionnaire is to only help and inform both the employee and their employment agency on how to identify those individuals with underlying conditions or have identified increased risk factor(s) that may put them at increased or extreme risk in the workplace.
How is Covid - age used?
When assessing a worker’s occupational risk from COVID-19, their Covid-age can be set alongside their history of vaccination and/or infection to derive an overall estimate of personal vulnerability. That assessment can then be combined with knowledge about their job and the expected community prevalence of infection, to obtain an assessment of risk .