Isolation

[nilster]

Just wanted to know if I had asthma and I've had a heart attack and needed to be shocked on living room floor and needed 2 stents fitted am I a high risk for the virus and should I isolate

[IanGordon]

Every man woman and child on the planet is currently at risk. Social isolation and extreme contact reduction will reduce that risk.

Survival initially depends on no/minimal contacts - commit to not getting it

If infected, individual outcomes will depend on the relative condition of your respiratory system, cardiology and your immune system.

Hence the greater danger to older people with existing conditions,

Ignorance, hesitancy, arrogance (it won't happen to me) and of course inaction, will also increase your personal risk.

Its unknown territory, but isolation holds the trump (sorry!) card, both individually and collectively.

Why would you not want to improve your chances of coming through this unscathed?

[Chappychap]

You are not at any greater risk than anyone else of CATCHING the virus. However you are at higher risk of complications if you do catch it.

But that still doesn't mean you should self isolate.

The government's advice is that someone like yourself should be very careful about social distancing, but social distancing isn't the same thing as self isolating. That difference is clearly spelt out on this excellent British Heart Foundation site,

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

Good luck!

[SpiritoftheFloyd]

Hi nilster

Here's the NHS advice

List of conditions for extremely vulnerable who should be shielded and self isolate for 12 weeks

gov.uk/government/publicati...

Social Distancing

gov.uk/government/publicati...

[nilster in reply to SpiritoftheFloyd]

Thank you for the reply I now have some clarity as my asthma is not servier as I have never been in hospital for it hopefully I will not receive a letter but will still contact gp to see if I should self isolate