Over the past two to three weeks, the head of intensive care at Montreal's Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, says he started noticing a worrisome trend, with the average COVID-19 patients getting younger. According to Dr. François Marquis, people arriving at the hospital are on average, about 10 to 15 years younger than earlier patients in need of medical care after contracting COVID-19. He said it's not just the proportion of hospital patients who are younger that's increasing, the overall number of younger patients is rising as well. "If you're that unlucky guy, well, you're going to die, and you're not going die 1.5 per cent, you're going be fully dead.'' His ICU is supposed to have 24 beds, but because staff members have left the health-care system — particularly nurses — it now has a capacity of 14: seven beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients and seven for everyone else.

Source: CBC News April 09, 2021 15:11 UTC