On: What we can learn from Camus’s “The Plague”

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>in France 50% of ICU patients are under 60

This number is meaningless without knowing the age distribution of infections. If many more young people are infected than old people, we'd expect the absolute number of young people hospitalized to be higher, even if old people are way more likely to require hospitalization.

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Indeed. They could all be 45-to-55 year olds.

Or patients with other co-morbid issues or who are immuno-compromised.

Or of under-60 group most of them are homeless and haven't eaten much the past few months (plus sleeping rough in the winter).