Dr. David J. De La Zerda, the director of medical ICU at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, says that many of the patients he's seeing are people in their 20s, 30s and 40s with no medical history.
Dozens of hospitals are at the limit of their intensive care unit capacity, according to Florida'sAnd one Miami doctor is particularly worried about the type of people he's now seeing lots of in the ICU: young people with no medical history.
These patients that you're seeing in the ICU today, are you noticing any differences from the COVID-19 patients you were seeing just two months ago? That's one big change. Much younger patients, pretty much healthy. Not really major past medical history.
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