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The reports suggest that COVID-19 is more than just a "boomer remover" - a phrase made popular by younger generations who think they're invincible.
Considering that US hospitals are projected to be completely full come mid-May, the implications of the coronavirus impacting more than just the elderly are significant.
The new reports of younger ICU patients echo unconfirmed accounts from Italian doctors:
On Saturday, AD documented the case of a 16-year-old boy with no disclosed underlying conditions who wound up in the ICU after complaining of nausea and headaches. He is currently on ventilation in a medically-induced coma.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
I guess the big question is how many of those needing ICU had preexisting conditions?
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
Hard to say about the preexisting conditions.
Many in the US have weak immune system because of the way we eat and live.
originally posted by: vonclod
Why does that matter, they are still people, lots of compromised or unhealthy people out there..more than enough to overwhelm the medical system. I'm just saying this is a possibility.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: vonclod
Why does that matter, they are still people, lots of compromised or unhealthy people out there..more than enough to overwhelm the medical system. I'm just saying this is a possibility.
Where I see it matters is when x% younger healthy people end up in a ICU, and that would be a SHTF indicator.
originally posted by: KiwiNite
ZeroHedge lol no thanks. I've already had psychosis after their #ty reporting based on nothing but rumors found on 4chan
Link
More than half of the 300 people in intensive care units in France with the new virus are under 60.
The head of the national health agency, Jerome Salomon, announced the statistic Saturday night as France saw another jump in new virus cases.
originally posted by: SocratesJohnson
a reply to: vonclod
Emotionally it doesn’t. Logically it does.
You cannot solve a problem if you don’t identify the problem.
The virus hasn’t had much of an effect in the younger generations. If it’s mutating to affect the younger generations, society has a bigger issue. If the 50 are genetically weak, that’s evolution’s version of brush fire.
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: Xtrozero
On Saturday, AD documented the case of a 16-year-old boy with no disclosed underlying conditions who wound up in the ICU after complaining of nausea and headaches. He is currently on ventilation in a medically-induced coma.
Hard to say about the preexisting conditions.
Many in the US have weak immune system because of the way we eat and live.
originally posted by: dantanna
a reply to: LookingAtMars
Jerome Salomon
lmfao
i wonder how he got such a prominent gig