Covid: Extra 1.7m vulnerable added to shielding list
Covid: Extra 1.7m vulnerable added to shielding list
There is to be a large expansion of the number of people being asked to shield
in England.
An extra 1.7 million people are expected to be added to the 2.3 million already on
the list.
Half of the group have not yet been vaccinated so will now be prioritised urgently by
their local GPs.
It comes after a new model was developed that takes into account extra factors
rather than just health.
This calculation includes things such as ethnicity, deprivation (by postcode) and
weight to work out a person's risk of becoming seriously ill if they were to catch
Covid.
It also looks at age, underlying health issues and prescribed medications.
Prof Andrew Hayward, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus
Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), which has been involved in the modelling, said
it considered a "combination of factors" such as age, ethnicity and chronic illness
and put them together to reach a score.
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