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Younger People Make Up Growing Share Of Serious COVID Cases : Shots – Health News – NPR
With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a greater share of their COVID-19 patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate among…
Serious cases of COVID-19 have grown in recent weeks in Americans 50 and younger.
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After spending much of the past year tending to elderly patients, doctors are seeing a clear demographic shift: young and middle-aged adults make up a growing share of the patients in COVID-19 hospital wards.
It’s both a sign of the country’s success in protecting the elderly through vaccination and an urgent reminder that younger generations will pay a heavy price if the outbreak is allowed to…
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