>> New C.D.C. data showed that nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54.<p>To be more specific:<p>>> Among 508 (12%) patients known to have been hospitalized, 9% were aged ≥85 years, 26% 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 ≤9 years, to ≥31% among adults aged ≥85 years. (Table).<p>More to the point:<p>>> The cases described in this report include both COVID-19 cases confirmed by state or local public health laboratories as well as those with a positive test at the state or local public health laboratories and confirmation at CDC. No data on serious underlying health conditions were available. Data on these cases are preliminary and are missing for some key characteristics of interest, including hospitalization status (1,514), ICU admission (2,253), death (2,001), and age (386).<p>From the report:<p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm6912e2_w" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm...</a><p>I don't really get why the 20-54 age range is reported as one category in the NYT article when they're reported as separate categories in the CDC report. Would it weaken the arcile's point to report that 20-44 year olds and 45-54 year olds both had around 20% chance of being hospitalised?
What's the definition of "sick enough to be hospitalized"? Given the over-abundance of caution, I would imagine a good number of people with positive tests are admitted, monitored overnight, then released in the morning, without ever really showing much more than mild symptoms.<p>Tom and Rita Hanks were hospitalized. The worst of it, according to them was "a bit tired, some body aches... some chills. Slight fever too" Now he "feels the 'blahs' but has no fever."<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1237909897020207104</a><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/18/tom-hanks-has-the-blahs-rita-wilson-recover-from-coronavirus-australia" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/18/tom-hanks-has-t...</a>
It's not just the elderly who will die if the system is overwhelmed. Nearly 40% of those that are sick enough to require hospital care are between the ages of 20 and 64[1]. If everyone is getting it at the same time and there's not enough health care to go around, those 20-64 year olds will be dying too.
I'm curious about comorbidities in those below 65 that were hospitalized. The US generally leads the world in a lot of those health problems that predict poor outcomes if you get COVID19