Safe Living in a Pandemic – Help!?

Why can't we fill in personal data and routine community COVID stats into a web form and calculate our risk of infection and mortality? Anyone working on it? Plus another dose of unintended consequences. A brief episode with Health Hats.

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Calculating risk 00:54. 1

$64 billion question 02:34. 1

National collaboratives 03:47. 2

Evidence-informed guidance – where are you? 06:06. 2

Unintended Consequences 07:08. 3

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Credits
Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, Boston Drummer, Composer, Arranger

Sponsored by Abridge

Photo by United Nation COVID-19 Response on Unsplash

Photo by Sandie Clarke on Unsplash

Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: Ann Boland, Laura Marcial, Michael Waters, Michael Mittelman, Brian Alper, Joyce Lee, Maria Michaels

Links
National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) at the NIH collecting data from electronic health records

PCORI (Patient-Centered Research Institute)-sponsored HERO Registry for healthcare worker exposure

The Covid-19 Knowledge Accelerator with systematic reviews of research

Private industry’s COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition

Datavant’s COVID-19 Research Database

Mothers Out Front  environmental justice

Event Risk Calculator

Individualized risk predictor.

COVID survival calculator.

Yale personal risk calculator, Hunala.

Washington Post article, Climate change is also a racial justice problem
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Calculating risk
This morning my wife, an outpatient occupational therapist in a satellite clinic, asked, ‘Is it safe for me to still go to work? Is it worth the risk? Everyone wears a mask; we mostly stay six feet apart; the room is well ventilated with the air drawn up.’ She drives to work. I’m over 65, male, with multiple sclerosis on immunosuppressant infusions.

I want to go to the literature and find a risk calculator that produces a score given the factors of age, gender, home and work zip code, the density of work, transportation method,