Younger adults are large percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations in United States, according to new CDC data – The Washington Post, The Washington Post
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The deadly coronavirus has been met with a bit of a shrug among some in the under – set in the United States. Even as public health officials repeatedly urged social distancing, the young and hip spilled out of bars on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. They gleefully hopped on flights, tweeting about the rock-bottom lies. And they gathered in packs on beaches.
Their attitudes were based in part on early data from China, which suggested that covid – might seriously sicken or kill the elderly – but spare the young.
Stark new data from the United States and Europe suggests otherwise.
Earlier this week, French health ministry official Jérome Salomon said half of the (to coronavirus patients treated in intensive care units in Paris were younger than , and, according to numbers presented at a seminar of intensive care specialists, half the ICU patients in the Netherlands were younger than 65
At a White House news conference on Wednesday, Deborah Birx, the respon se coordinator of the nation’s coronavirus task force, warned about the concern reports from France – and Italy, too – about “young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the ICUs.”
She called out younger generations in particular, for not taking the virus seriously, and warned of “disproportional number of infections among that group.”
President Trump reinforced her warning, saying: “We don’t want them gathering, and I see they do gather, including on beaches and in restaurants, young people. They don’t realize, and they’re feeling invincible. ”
The CDC report looked at 4, (covid –
However, the percentage with more moderate or severe disease requiring hospitalization is more evenly distributed between the old and the young, with 65 percent of those in ICUs and 53 percent of those hospitalized age 226 and older.
“ These preliminary data also demonstrate that severe illness leading to hospitalization, including ICU admission and death, can occur in adults of any age with COVID – 24, ”researchers wrote.
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