US hospitalizations of people under 50 at highest levels since start of pandemic

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/19/us-covid-coronavirus-hospitalizations-un-general-assembly

US hospitalizations of people under 50 at highest levels since start of pandemic

Thu 19 Aug 2021 17.00 BST

Hospitalizations of people under the age of 50 with Covid-19 are now at the highest levels seen in the US since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest government data shows.

The largest increases in hospitalizations was among those in their 30s and the under-18s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The previous peak in coronavirus patients under 50 needing to be hospitalized was in January this year.
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Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill Covid-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles to far-flung states for treatment.
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The issue is that large hospitals in urban areas were already running short of space and staff with non-Covid procedures like cancer biopsies and hip replacements when the summer surge started. That means they have very few free beds to offer to patients from small rural hospitals without intensive care units (ICUs) or from medical centers in virus hotspots.
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Hospitals across the US had more than 75,000 coronavirus patients as of last week, a dramatic increase from a few weeks ago but still well below the winter surge records.
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[Texaswitchy]

1. Cause a lot of old folks have the shots.

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