Michigan Hospital Wards Filling With Younger Patients
By Ralph Ellis
WebMD Health News
April 27, 2021 While coronavirus numbers are down across most of the United States, the virus is surging across Michigan. And with the surge, hospitals are reporting an alarming demographic shift: More people being hospitalized with COVID-19 are under 65.
“I am putting more patients in their 20s and 30s and 40s on oxygen and on life support than at any other time in this pandemic,” said Erin Brennan, MD, an emergency room physician in Detroit told the Detroit Free Press. What we re seeing is a definite shift of toward the younger patients, said David Vandenberg, MD, vice president and chief medical officer of St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor. No question about that. I would say that our average age . is about 58 in this surge.
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Michigan hospitals are now admitting twice the number of those in their 30s and 40s compared to during the fall and winter peak, according to data aggregated by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. Like last spring, hospitals are once again implementing “surge protocols” to handle the emergency.
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The change comes as the state is in the midst of one of the nation’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks, even as vaccination numbers rise across the country.
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