‘Strong increase in the number of younger corona patients in hospitals’

In the current wave, there are many more younger corona patients, between thirty and fifty years old, in hospitals. That reports ‘Trouw’.

The British variant of the virus is a possible cause, according to the newspaper.

Younger corona patients

But it is not only the average age that is falling, partly due to the vaccination of the elderly; also in an absolute sense there are more seriously ill young people who end up in hospital. For example, in March and April (until the 29th) of this year, 294 corona patients between the ages of thirty and fifty were admitted to the ICU, compared to 263 in the same months last year, when the peak of patients due to the first wave was much higher overall. lay. The younger patients end up in both the nursing wards and the ICs.

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