WHO no longer includes people over 65 in the high-risk group for covitis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated the recommendations on COVID-19. In particular, it refused to enroll people over 65 in the high-risk group. Only - in the moderate risk group.This was reported to journalists in the Geneva headquarters of WHO. The explanation to this directive states that modern "variants of COVID-19 virus, as a rule, cause less severe disease, and the level of immunity is higher due to vaccination".
The moderate-risk category includes people formerly at high risk, including those over 65, as well as those with "chronic diseases, disabilities and related chronic conditions" - obesity, diabetes, as well as kidney disease, liver disease and cancer.
The estimated hospitalization rate, the WHO documents note, for patients in this group is 3 percent. Immunocompromised people "remain at higher risk. The estimated hospitalization rate for those is 6 percent.
"Most people, however, are in the low-risk group," the organization stated, adding that WHO "continues to strongly recommend" the drugs nirmatrelvir and ritonavir for people at high and moderate risk of hospitalization.