Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.

[Mileage Psycho]

It's less fatal the younger you are, but no matter the adult age you can get sick or worse.

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Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.

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 University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It’s 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 they’re 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 administration’s 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.

“You have the potential then to spread it to someone who does have a condition that none of us knew about, and cause them to have a disastrous outcome,” Dr. Birx said, addressing young people.

In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation.

“Younger people may feel more confident about their ability to withstand a virus like this,” said Dr. Christopher Carlsten, head of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia. But, he said, “if that many younger people are being hospitalized, that means that there are a lot of young people in the community that are walking around with the infection.”

The new data represents a preliminary look at the first significant wave of cases in the United States that does not include people who returned to the country from Wuhan, China, or from Japan, the authors reported. Between Feb. 12 and March 16, there were 4,226 such cases reported to the C.D.C., the study says.

The ages were reported for 2,449 of those patients, the C.D.C. said, and of those, 6 percent were 85 and older, and 25 percent were between 65 and 84. Twenty-nine percent were aged 20 to 44.

The age groups of 55 to 64 and 45 to 54 each included 18 percent of the total. Only 5 percent of cases were diagnosed in people 19 and younger.

The risk of a patient requiring hospitalization or dying of the infection caused by the coronavirus increased with age, as has been the pattern in other countries.

The report included no information about whether patients of any age had underlying risk factors, such as a chronic illness or a compromised immune system. So, it is impossible to determine whether the younger patients who were hospitalized were more susceptible to serious infection than most others in their age group.

But experts said that even if younger people in the report were medical outliers, the fact that they were taking up hospital beds and space in intensive care units was significant.

And these more serious cases represent the leading edge of how the pandemic is rapidly unfolding in the United States, showing that adults of all ages are susceptible and should be concerned about protecting their own health, and not transmitting the virus to others.

The youngest age group, people 19 and under, accounted for less than 1 percent of the hospitalizations, and none of the I.C.U. admissions or deaths. This dovetails with data from other countries so far. This week, however, the largest study to date of pediatric cases in China found that a small segment of very young children may need hospitalization for very serious symptoms, and that one 14-year-old boy in China died from the virus.

Of the 44 people whose deaths were recorded in the report, 15 were age 85 or older and 20 were between the ages of 65 to 84. There were nine deaths among adults age 20 to 64, the report said.

Some of the patients in the study are still sick, the authors noted, so the results of their cases are unclear. Data was missing for a number of the cases, “which likely resulted in an underestimation of the outcomes,” the authors wrote. Because of the missing data, the authors presented percentages of hospitalizations, I.C.U. admissions and deaths as a range. The report also says that the limited testing available in the United States so far makes this report only an early snapshot of the crisis.

Still, the authors wrote, “these preliminary data also demonstrate that severe illness leading to hospitalization, including I.C.U. admission and death, can occur in adults of any age with Covid-19.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/younger-adults-comprise-big-portion-of-coronavirus-hospitalizations-in-us/ar-BB11nGEB

 

 

[f7ben]

 Buttcocks says otherwise 

[Momorider]

They said bits all young in Spain and Italy all the carriers that infected and killed the Bonkers are now sick Fucks 

[AKIQPilot]

2 minutes ago, Momorider said:

They said bits all young in Spain and Italy all the carriers that infected and killed the Bonkers are now sick Fucks 

Dude. You need to slow down a little and think before you type.  You are losing your mind. 

[Momorider]

7 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

Dude. You need to slow down a little and think before you type.  You are losing your mind. 

I am rather fucked at the moment

[AKIQPilot]

1 minute ago, Momorider said:

I am rather fucked at the moment

Why. Whats going on?

[frenchy]

2 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

Why. Whats going on?

he's dumb as fuck AND high. Not a good combo

[AKIQPilot]

Just now, frenchy said:

he's dumb as fuck AND high. Not a good combo

Oh its just the dope. Hmmmm. 

[SSFB]

Don’t all CFOs get high as fuck for lunch on Thursday?

[steve from amherst]

2 minutes ago, frenchy said:

he's dumb as fuck AND high. Not a good combo

Always a shocker when you ask someone " are you stoned , or stupid " and the answer " both"

[steve from amherst]

Just now, SSFB said:

Don’t all CFOs get high as fuck for lunch on Thursday?

Oak desk no, my hog and me , yes.

[frenchy]

4 minutes ago, SSFB said:

Don’t all CFOs get high as fuck for lunch on Thursday?

in the midst of a financial catastrophe no less  

Edited March 19, 2020 by frenchy

[revkevsdi]

21 minutes ago, Momorider said:

I am rather fucked at the moment

 

17 minutes ago, frenchy said:

he's dumb as fuck AND high. Not a good combo

 

16 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

Oh its just the dope. Hmmmm. 

Naahhh he’s scared. All those toilet bowls he licks has his worried. 

[Rod]

Some people can get pretty sick from colds. Not news 

[Highmark]

Well this sure is a dramatic turn from what they've been saying the whole time.

Parts of me think this is to get the kids to take part in what the rest of us are. 

[Redheaded Stepchild]

Just now, Highmark said:

Well this sure is a dramatic turn from what they've been saying the whole time.

Parts of me think this is to get the kids to take part in what the rest of us are. 

At this point I think they don't know much of anything. 

[spin_dry]

1 hour ago, f7ben said:

 Buttcocks says otherwise 

He yacks a lot about bullshit stuff. 

[Highmark]

2 minutes ago, Redheaded Stepchild said:

At this point I think they don't know much of anything. 

Must cause this is a DRAMATIC reversal to what they've been saying.  Dramatic. 

Also note.

The report included no information about whether patients of any age had underlying risk factors, such as a chronic illness or a compromised immune system. So, it is impossible to determine whether the younger patients who were hospitalized were more susceptible to serious infection than most others in their age group.

Edited March 19, 2020 by Highmark

[spin_dry]

36 minutes ago, ACE said:

Some people can get pretty sick from colds. Not news 

No they don’t. 

[Redheaded Stepchild]

1 minute ago, Highmark said:

Must cause this is a DRAMATIC reversal to what they've been saying.  Dramatic. 

I wonder if its still a compromised health thing still that increases your chances of death.

[AKIQPilot]

19 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Must cause this is a DRAMATIC reversal to what they've been saying.  Dramatic. 

Also note.

The report included no information about whether patients of any age had underlying risk factors, such as a chronic illness or a compromised immune system. So, it is impossible to determine whether the younger patients who were hospitalized were more susceptible to serious infection than most others in their age group.

Well Spin said last week that as this virus mutates it could begin attacking healthy people and young people. 
 

 

[Highmark]

1 minute ago, AKIQPilot said:

Well Spin said last week that as this virus mutates it could begin attacking healthy people and young people. 
 

 

If it starts killing healthy people at a rate of 2-5% plus then I hope people are stocked up.   That could lead to a global collapse.  

[BOHICA]

2 hours ago, Mileage Psycho said:

38 percent were notably younger — between 20 and 54

Smh.  54 is not a younger adult....  45 is not really even a younger adult.

jesus maybe we can say  of the people infected and/or died are in the age group of 0 years old and 120 years old.

Edited March 19, 2020 by BOHICA

[steve from amherst]

4 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

Smh.  54 is not a younger adult....  45 is not really even a younger adult.

jesus maybe we can stay the of the people infected and/or died are in the age group of 0 years old and 120 years old.

That's how a weatherman would do it.

[Mileage Psycho]

2 hours ago, BOHICA said:

Smh.  54 is not a younger adult....  45 is not really even a younger adult.

jesus maybe we can say  of the people infected and/or died are in the age group of 0 years old and 120 years old.

I'll go with reporting of the scientist, don't ask me why I think the opinion of a lineman deosn't hold any water

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In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation.

“Younger people may feel more confident about their ability to withstand a virus like this,” said Dr. Christopher Carlsten, head of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia. But, he said, “if that many younger people are being hospitalized, that means that there are a lot of young people in the community that are walking around with the infection.”