Queen Elizabeth And Justin Bieber Both Tested Positive For Covid. Her Risk Is Roughly 340 Times Greater.

Feb 20, 2022, 05:32pm

Buckingham Palace announced Sunday that Queen Elizabeth II of England, 95, tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, and while her prognosis remains much better because of the development of vaccines, her advanced age puts her at particular risk.

Buckingham Palace said in a statement that the queen has mild coldlike symptoms but expects to continue light duties over the next week.

Charles, Elizabeth's oldest son, tested positive for Covid-19 on February 10, and came into contact with the queen just before his diagnosis.

The queen is thought to have had her follow-up shot and booster dose since January, when she received one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people 85 years old are more likely to die from Covid-19-related complications than people 18 years old.

If the queen is up to date on her Covid-19 vaccines, her chances of recovery are much better, as a recent study out of Israel found just 60 of more than 470,000 participants ages 65 and older who had received a Covid-19 booster shot eventually died from covid.

The number is 340. According to the CDC, Queen Elizabeth's age group is roughly how many times more lethal a covid infection could be for. The British Medical Journal's online calculator of Covid risks that pulls from medical data from British residents estimates a 95-year-old woman's risk. The queen's risk of death would be 450 times greater if it were known that someone his age and sex had just a.004 chance of dying.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wished for a swift recovery from Covid for the Queen. According to the Associated Press, Johnson is expected to announce plans to end Covid-19 restrictions in England on Monday.

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The risk of death from Covid-19 was greater for people older than 85 years old before the creation of Covid-19 vaccines. A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in October 2020 that drew from 76 Covid-19 patients ages and older 85 found that 7 out of the 42 women died, though this figure was lower than the male rate. The risk of death from Covid-19 for a 95-year-old male is double that of a female of the same age, up to 3.6%.

The British women's and men's curling teams won gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics, and she sent them a letter of thanks. The release was supposed to send a business-as-usual message after she was diagnosed.

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