Delta variant in US: Hospitalisation rates for young adults hit record highs

London:  Amid the surge of the Delta variant in the US, hospitalisation rates for the adults in their 30s due to Covid-19 have hit record highs, making it the “pandemic of the young”.
New Covid-19 hospital admissions for patients in their 30s reached an average of 1,113 per day for the week that ended Wednesday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
That average daily hospitalisation rate had jumped 22.6 per cent from 908 in the previous seven days, according to the CDC.
“All of these younger age groups that we previously thought were relatively spared from severe outcomes from Covid up to 50 years, those hospital admission rates are all moving upwards at a dizzying pace unfortunately,” Dr James Lawler, co-director of the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska Medical Center was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
“So this is not only the pandemic of the unvaccinated in the US, it’s a pandemic of the young now,” he added.
The CDC data shows that thirty somethings made up 170,852 out of more than 2.5 million new hospital admissions for Covid-19 since August 2020, the report said.