The significance is that if you don’t have a serious co-morbidity you could have gone to work, to ball games, to graduations, on vacations, etc.
This is exactly why we needed full statistics on all comorbidities of those hospitalizations, ICU numbers and deaths from very early on. How many of the nursing home residents who needed ICU and who died were bedridden and near death already? The media seems to want us to picture elderly people living full lives in retirement communities dying from COVID-19.
After the six weeks of “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread” we should have quarantined the sick and let a fully informed public make their own personal decisions about their own behavior.