| Comment | I'm sure there's plenty of more detailed studies, but this is the first one I pulled up with numbers https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(20)30367-0/pdf
Of a sample of CV19 patients hospitalised with pneumonia, 72% were male, median age 60, 52% showing severe and 17% critical symptoms, 13% needing mechanical ventilation
So while age is a strong co-morbidity, it's very wrong to see it as a thing just for old people (depending on your definition of old).
I know 2 people that have had severe symptoms that required hospitalisation - both men. The first (age 48) can still barely climb stairs 3 months later. The other (age 52) is dead. |
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