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Diabetes specific risk calculator

Bluetit1802 said:
Agreed, but the questionnaire does not mention osteoporosis. All it says is "Had a prior fracture of hip, wrist, spine or humerus". It does not ask when or how recently, how it happened, or how old you were at the time. This is what makes me query the reason it appears on the questionnaire.
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Maybe the risk could be due to a weakened bone structure, nerve damage, etc thus weakening the body to fight off Covid 19, but I haven't found anywhere that explains previous or past bone fractures and a link to the virus.

All it says is "Had a prior fracture of hip, wrist, spine or humerus" these type of fractures do seem to happen to the older generation, maybe the over 75 + age group, but the link should of stated what age group these fracture's belonged to and the reasons why.
 
There's so many flaws in this calculator that I am beginning to think it's just there to stop panic. As others have pointed out it ignores many important factors.

My 94 year old aunt's score came out at a 1 in 13 chance of dying of Covid. I really don't think she would have outlived the Covid outbreak even if she hadn't caught it. Are they honestly saying that 12 old ladies with Covid and the same risk factors as her would have lived? At 94 she was the longest lived of any of her relatives, going back 150 years, my guess is that 6 months on she would have died of 'natural' causes. That doesn't make it OK that she died a few months too early.

We all know that the over 90s don't stand much chance of surviving Covid. A 12 in 13 chance of survival isn't realistic. I take this calculator with a pinch of salt.
 
zand said:
There's so many flaws in this calculator that I am beginning to think it's just there to stop panic. As others have pointed out it ignores many important factors.

My 94 year old aunt's score came out at a 1 in 13 chance of dying of Covid. I really don't think she would have outlived the Covid outbreak even if she hadn't caught it. Are they honestly saying that 12 old ladies with Covid and the same risk factors as her would have lived? At 94 she was the longest lived of any of her relatives, going back 150 years, my guess is that 6 months on she would have died of 'natural' causes. That doesn't make it OK that she died a few months too early.

We all know that the over 90s don't stand much chance of surviving Covid. A 12 in 13 chance of survival isn't realistic. I take this calculator with a pinch of salt.
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I have done the calculator again, with my own details including T2 but saying I was age 99. This is what it said

In other words in a crowd of 10000 people with the same risk factors, 19 are likely to catch and die from COVID-19 and 42 to be admitted to hospital during a 90 day period similar to the recent peak.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have done the calculator again, with my own details including T2 but saying I was age 99. This is what it said

In other words in a crowd of 10000 people with the same risk factors, 19 are likely to catch and die from COVID-19 and 42 to be admitted to hospital during a 90 day period similar to the recent peak.
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So 9,939 type 2 diabetic people aged 99 will be fine then. Good to know! :)
 
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