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What exactly is the risk of needing hospitalisation if you are young? Does anybody know?

• dharma1 7y ago
  It's too early to say with reliable data. We will definitely know in 2-3 weeks with data from many European countries. In Italy, it looks like the percentage of younger hospitalised people is 12%, but growing. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-update-young-people-hospital-luca-lorini-bergamo-a9402531.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...
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  • vanniv 7y ago
    That is not 12% of cases. That is 12% of hospitalizations are under the age for 50. The overall hospitalization rate is difficult to know, due to the huge inaccuracies in the case numbers.
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  • robryk 7y ago
    12% of _COVID ICU patients_ in Italy are below 50 years old. Note that this doesn't let us answer the question of how common are ICU cases among young infected people.
    • mantap 7y ago
      And the question was about hospital admissions not ICU admissions anyway.