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COVID-19 cases continue to roll into the two Toronto-area hospitals where Eram Chhogala works as a trauma nurse. The numbers have dwindled to a stream instead of a wave, but each is a reminder of what the disease has done and could possibly still do. ....
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Jacob Serebrin 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.” ....
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