More and more young people. Analysis of data from Brazil found “people aged 30-59 represented about 27% of #COVID19 deaths over the past 3 months or so—7% increase from pre-December numbers.” This matches the trend of many younger adults in ICUs in 🇧🇷. 🧵
cnn.com/2021/03/24/ame…
cnn.com/2021/03/24/ame…
2) “And amid that (Brazil) surge, a worrying pattern has emerged—more young people seem to be getting severely ill and dying from Covid-19, doctors tell CNN.”
3) Across the country, intensive care physicians keep saying the same thing: In this latest wave, their patients are younger than ever.
"We have otherwise healthy patients that are between 30 and 50-years-old and that is the profile for the majority of patients,"
"We have otherwise healthy patients that are between 30 and 50-years-old and that is the profile for the majority of patients,"
4) CNN has spoken to nearly a dozen ICU physicians and nurses since mid-January, across multiple hospitals in several Brazilian states. Each said their ICU beds are filled with more young people than ever.
5) These numbers are no joke. And ICU numbers and deaths cannot be artifacts of merely testing. People need to wake up to possibility #P1 is the culprit. Brazil’s new wave is dominated by #P1.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1374558577340379137
6) utterly failed leadership in Brazil.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1375052084551282689
7) Brazil’s Covid trajectory continues to be worrisome, especially considering the sheer size of the country of ~213 million.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1374478498476171276
8) Brazil’s situation poses a global security thread both in public health and economic instability.
We absolute must send aid to Brazil urgently.
We absolute must send aid to Brazil urgently.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1373501475805102082
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