When we looked at the data, we found that people in the shielded group were at much higher risk, but despite shielding, they were still 18 times more likely to be hospitalised from Covid and 49 times more likely to die from it. The moderate-risk group was also at much higher risk than the low-risk category of people; they were seven times more likely to end up in hospital from Covid and 26 times more likely to die from it, but that group did not get the same targeted message as the shielded group.