Health officials are increasingly reporting that young people are not just contracting the virus -- it's making more and more of them ill enough to be admitted to hospitals.
experts are trying to bust a myth that they say has stifled the global health crisis response: that young people can’t get seriously ill from the virus that has killed more than 574,000 people around the world.
“People have always been admitted to the hospital in that age group, and no one wanted to listen to that,” Seemuller said. “The early message was that young people will be fine but that's just not true.”Two young men watch as people wade in the ocean, July 4, 2020, in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
“One of the 25-year-olds I admitted during my shift looked terrible,” said Heinz. “He looked like he had a horrible, nasty, nasty flu and was requiring four or five liters of oxygen. And this is a young, healthy guy.”, think they are immune and are contributing to the increase in hospitalizations since Arizona reopened in May.
“That’s a pretty remarkable shift,” Masud said. “It's a significant amount of admissions to the hospital of people who should not be in the hospital.” “It's very rare for that age group [between 18 - 29] to have severe complications but when we start to see such large numbers of individuals with COVID, it means that you're going to see more individuals in that age group with complications, just statistically,” Billioux said. “Even if it's a rare event, if you increase a number of events, you're going to see more of it.”
Meanwhile, in other states where cases and deaths have been raging this summer, officials report that they have not seen a huge shift in hospitalization toward the younger population. Some states that haven’t seen as much, like Colorado and Idaho, also say their age distribution has remained mostly flat.
But hospitals like the Tampa General Hospital have seen high numbers of younger patients come in since Memorial Day.
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