“This is not a value judgment on any given profession. This is simply the science,” she said. She said that “national and international evidence now confirms that age is the ‘strongest predictor’ of whether a person who contracts Covid-19 will be admitted to hospital or ICU or die as a result of their infection”. She cited Professor Karina Butler of the National Immunisation advisory Committee (NIAC) who had confirmed that in a comparison between a 30- to 34-year-old and a 60- to 64-year-old, the latter was 70 times more likely to die as a result of Covid-19 than the younger person.