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The coronavirus is not dangerous for young people; this assumption is widespread. However, the latest figures from the Zurich University Hospital and the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine show that even really healthy young people end up in intensive care thanks to Corona.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, between 800 and 1000 people have been treated in an intensive care unit in Switzerland. Although most of them were over 60, nearly 40 percent were under 60 – every sixth was even under 50. And: Of those under 40, more than 75 percent had no prior illnesses.
“That makes you think”
As senior physician Matthias Hilty, from the Institute of Intensive Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich, told the “Tagesanzeiger”, young people do not necessarily have to have a previous illness to contract the coronavirus, why it is not yet clear. However, according to Hilty, it appears that his immune system is not working properly when the disease begins. During this time, the virus can multiply unhindered in the body.
In young people there are also severe courses with the flu, but not in the same proportion as with the coronavirus. “That makes you think it’s not that rare for youngsters either,” says Hilty. The figures also show that many more men are seriously ill than women: the proportion is 76 percent.
Chances of survival in the US are lower
According to Hilty, anyone who comes to the intensive care unit would often have no chance of survival without intensive medical support. In Switzerland, about 80 percent of all seriously ill patients can leave the ward alive. In people younger than 50, more than 96 percent survived. “Given the severity of the disease, this is very rewarding and not natural,” says Hilty.
Because in other countries it looks completely different: according to studies, the probability of survival in the intensive care unit in the US is around 63 percent for all patients, for example. In Lombardy, only 55 percent of patients survived during the first wave. (support)
