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New C.D.C. data showed that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54. But the risk of dying was significantly higher in older people.
By Pam Belluck
March 18, 2020, 7:04 p.m. ET
American adults of all ages not just those in their 70s, 80s and 90s are being seriously sickened by the coronavirus, according to a report on nearly 2,500 of the first recorded cases in the United States.
The report, issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that as in other countries the oldest patients had the greatest likelihood of dying and of being hospitalized. But of the 508 patients known to have been hospitalized, 38 percent were notably younger between 20 and 54. And nearly half of the 121 patients who were admitted to intensive care units were adults under 65, the C.D.C. reported.
I think everyone should be paying attention to this, said Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Its not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that theyre young and healthy.
The findings served to underscore an appeal issued Wednesday at a White House briefing by Dr. Deborah Birx, a physician and State Department official who is a leader of the administrations coronavirus task force. Citing similar reports of young adults in Italy and in France being hospitalized and needing intensive care, Dr. Birx implored the millennial generation to stop socializing in groups and to take care to protect themselves and others.
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jb5150
(1,178 posts)Really need to pay attention to this information. What's terrifying is that, if our hospitals are swamped with patients, many younger people may die simply because there is not enough available equipment. I really want to scream it to them "Young people are not immune to getting this, and getting very sick"
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Guess who will probably win?
barbtries
(28,794 posts)though honestly if they said we'll just flip a coin I'd tell them to let me go and save the young.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)We are not in any high risk group and neither are our 2 teens but all just chillin @ home base since Saturday
Small quarters but very lucky that theres no school and we are both doing wfh so $ still coming in for now
Its raining and crummy out anyway and a lot is closed up
Its not ideal, but behave all good people and help stop the spread because now it looks like it could be anyone !