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re: Local ER doc (South LA) here to answer your COVID-19 questions
Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:04 am to Antonio Moss
Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:04 am to Antonio Moss
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The young (18-49) have much better outcomes but they are still accounting for a significant percentage of hospitalizations.
A new study released this morning found that about 20% of all hospitalizations of COVID in the US are for people ages 20-44.
An easy common sense explanation for this is that is the working class and travelers. Who live in cities and have been traveling for work or recreation the most? 20-44 year olds.
It would make sense that a huge portion of people that age contracted it, most have little to no symptoms, but since so many did contract it a small portion are still hospitalized.
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Posted on 4/2/20 at 9:18 am to baldona
quote:Or simply that they’re just such a large portion of the population. It’s a huge age gap 18-49. So if you have 100,000 people get sick in that group. Even a small portion could have health issues and they could take up 400 hospital beds. Whereas if just 10,000 people over 65 get sick, they could take up 2,000 beds. And there’s your “20% of beds being used by young people” narrative. The context is important and doesn’t show the doomsday picture some people want to paint about young healthy people being vulnerable.
An easy common sense explanation for this is that is the working class and travelers. Who live in cities and have been traveling for work or recreation the most? 20-44 year olds.
This post was edited on 4/2/20 at 9:19 am
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