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Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital is seen in Montreal on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. People being hospitalized with COVID-19 are getting younger, according to Dr. Francois Marquis, the chief of Intensive Care at Montreal s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson April 08, 2021 - 1:00 AM
MONTREAL - Over the past two to three weeks, Dr. Francois Marquis, head of intensive care at Montreal s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, says he started noticing the average age of COVID-19 patients dropping.
People arriving at the hospital are on average, about 10 to 15 years younger than earlier patients in need of medical care after contracting COVID-19, he said in an interview Wednesday.
“Many of them deteriorate quite quickly and have to be admitted to the ICU,” she said.
Dr. Gaston De Serres, an epidemiologist with Quebec’s public health institute, said the proportion of Quebecers over 80 in hospital with COVID-19 has been declining since mid-March – largely due to vaccination.
He said it’s not just the proportion of hospital patients who are younger that’s increasing, the overall number of younger patients is rising as well. De Serres said there were 40 people between 50 and 59 years old who were hospitalized the week of March 7. During the week of March 28, there were 54.
But hospitalizations are still not rising significantly among people under 30. “It’s younger,” he said of the average age of patients. “It’s not young.”
Covid-19: More restrictions in Canada as the virus continues rampaging
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Canada on Wednesday afternoon reported 4,800 new cases of Covid-19.
As Covid-19 cases rise due to more transmissible variants spreading across Canada, populous provinces in the country are reinstating public health restrictions to stem the pandemic.
Canada on Wednesday afternoon reported 4,800 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the cumulative total to 1,025,693, including 23,170 deaths, according to CTV.
Ontario province declared its third state of emergency Wednesday afternoon since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic last year and is to impose a provincewide stay-at-home order that will go into effect at 12.01 a.m. Thursday and will last 28 days, Xinhua news agency reported.
Facing the new variants requires a new and co-ordinated approach to regain control.
To deal with the spread of variants of concern, Ontario declared its third state of emergency since the start of the pandemic.
The Progressive Conservative government had loosened some restrictions in lockdown zones last month even as doctors and nurses voiced concerns about increased infections.
A stark change came this week when Premier Doug Ford announced the return to a four-week stay-at-home order.
Dr. Seema Marwaha works as an internal medicine specialist at Unity Health in the Greater Toronto Area and is the editor-in-chief of Healthy Debate.
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MONTREAL Over the past two to three weeks, Dr. Francois Marquis, head of intensive care at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital, says he started noticing the average age of COVID-19 patients dropping.
People arriving at the hospital are on average, about 10 to 15 years younger than earlier patients in need of medical care after contracting COVID-19, he said in an interview Wednesday.
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“We are starting to see what was very unlikely during the first wave: 30 or 40-year-olds without any previous medical history, people in good health,” Marquis said.