How Much Does COVID-19 Affect Millennials? New CDC Data Offer a Clue
out of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have thrust younger adults into an even brighter spotlight: it suggests adults ages 20 to 44 have accounted for nearly 30% of U.S. COVID-19 cases, and 20% of related hospitalizations.
After adding adults ages 45 to 54, the percentages swelled to nearly 50% and 40%, respectively.at by far the highest risk for serious illness and complications. It’s also a conclusion that should be taken with a grain of salt. “For younger adults, the bottom line is there is still a small percentage that can get severe disease,” says Dr. George Anesi, director of the Medical Critical Care Bioresponse team at Penn Medicine. “In the overwhelming majority of cases, they do okay.” On the whole, the report affirmed data out of China showing that older adults, who are likely to have underlying conditions and poorer overall health, are at the highest risk of dying or suffering very severe disease, while. Despite the relatively high number of young adults included in the new CDC report, it still backs up that conclusion. Younger adults may be getting sick, but not many of them are progressing to the ICU or death, the report shows. Meanwhile, about a third of confirmed U.S. hospitalizations were among people 65 and older—but more than half of patients admitted to the intensive care unit were in this age range, as was the vast majority of the pool of people confirmed to have died from COVID-19.There are also caveats to all of the report’s numbers. It was based on the approximately 4,200 COVID-19 cases reported to the CDC by March 16. Given“We are prioritizing testing for more symptomatic and sicker patients, rather than testing everyone. We’re almost certainly missing less-sick patients,” Anesi says. Once we include them, “these numbers might look a little bit better, in that a lower proportion of patients [would get severe disease].”
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