CDC: Younger adults are large percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations in United States

[USALiberal]

The deadly coronavirus has been met with a bit of a shrug among some in the under-50 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 airfares. And they gathered in packs on beaches.

Their attitudes were based in part on early data from China, which suggested covid-19 might seriously sicken or kill the elderly — but spare the young.

Stark new data from the United States and Europe suggests otherwise.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of U.S. cases from Feb. 12 to March 16 released Wednesday shows 38 percent of those sick enough to be hospitalized were younger than 55.

More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/19/younger-adults-are-large-percentage-coronavirus-hospitalizations-united-states-according-new-cdc-data/

[LAS14]

1. I wonder if this is because so many older people are being very careful and have been...

... from the start, so that the population of people who have COVID-19 is disproportionately young?

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

I had a feeling that news would be forthcoming after a short time. Here it is.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Obesity and complications from obesity

Despite what people think, American young adults have more existing health problems than virtually any other country due to poor diet and exercise habits. There is little surprise to me that Americans would less be able to fend off the virus without hospitalization.

FYI, the obesity rate for adults in the US is twice what it is in Italy and 6 times what it is in China.

[Native]

4. the numbers were even higher for Paris and the Netherlands, per the article