re: Local ER doc (South LA) here to answer your COVID-19 questions

CDC

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Among 508 (12%) patients known to have been hospitalized, 9% were aged =85 years, start highlight36%end highlight were aged 65–84 years, 17% were aged 55–64 years, 18% were 45–54 years, and 20% were aged 20–44 years. Less than 1% of hospitalizations were among persons aged =19 years (Figure 2). The percentage of persons hospitalized increased with age, from 2%–3% among persons aged start highlight=19end highlight years, to =31% among adults aged =85 years.

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Worse in cluster zones:

NYC

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More than a quarter of hospitalizations related to the coronavirus crisis in New York City have been for patients under the age of 50, according to data provided by City Hall officials.

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20% of young require hospitalization

Researchers analyzed data on 4,226 COVID-19 cases reported to the CDC from Feb. 12 to March 16 by 49 states, three U.S. territories and Washington, D.C. The CDC had complete age data for 2,449 of these patients.

The CDC found 31 percent of all cases involved individuals age 65 or older. This age group also accounted for 45 percent of hospitalizations, 53 percent of intensive care unit admissions and 80 percent of deaths.

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However, the report also shows that millennials "are not invincible," STAT wrote in an article about the CDC analysis. Of the 508 cases known to involve hospitalizations, 20 percent involved patients ages 20 to 44, and of the 705 cases in that age range, between 14.3 percent and 20.8 percent were hospitalized. About 2 percent to 4 percent of patients in this age range required treatment in an ICU.

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