One in five cases end up in the ICU. Yes, 75% of those will eventually recover, but in the meantime they’ve taken up massive amounts of O2 and possibly occupied ventilators, thus overtaxing our hospitals. I spoke with my sister early this morning on her way to the hospital (she is a physician at a western hospital I am not going to name)...she has a 31-year old male patient in ICU right now with ARDS who has tested positive for COVID-19. There are too many people on this board who are repeating, falsely, that this disease doesn’t affect those under 50—it manifestly does.
I don’t think people are saying youth are not affected by Covid...just that youth don’t get as sick...the regular flu is more deadly for youth (for all, actually)