Michigan Hospital Wards Filling With Younger Patients
By Ralph Ellis
WebMD Health News
April 27, 2021 While coronavirus numbers are down across most of the United States, the virus is surging across Michigan. And with the surge, hospitals are reporting an alarming demographic shift: More people being hospitalized with COVID-19 are under 65.
“I am putting more patients in their 20s and 30s and 40s on oxygen and on life support than at any other time in this pandemic,” said Erin Brennan, MD, an emergency room physician in Detroit told the Detroit Free Press. What we re seeing is a definite shift of toward the younger patients, said David Vandenberg, MD, vice president and chief medical officer of St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor. No question about that. I would say that our average age . is about 58 in this surge.
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By Kristen Jordan Shamus | Detroit Free Press
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Andrea Kanerva sat on the edge of the bed with her hair pulled up, exposing the ties of her blue hospital gown. Fuzzy green socks with white treads covered her feet.
She spoke deliberately, breathing deeply as the lines on the monitor behind her danced up and down, graphing fluctuations in Kanerva s pulse, blood-oxygen level and respiratory rate.
Kanerva, who lives in Hamburg Township and works as a service adviser for Briarwood Ford in Saline, is part of Michigan s third wave of novel coronavirus patients hospitalized at the height of a surge that for weeks has led the nation.
. (Tribune News Service) Andrea Kanerva sat on the edge of the bed with her hair pulled up, exposing the ties of her blue hospital gown. Fuzzy green socks with white treads covered her feet. She spoke deliberately, breathing deeply as the lines on the monitor behind her danced up and down, graphing fluctuations in Kanerva s pulse, blood-oxygen level and respiratory rate. Kanerva, who lives in Hamburg Township and works as a service adviser for Briarwood Ford in Saline, is part of Michigan s third wave of novel coronavirus patients hospitalized at the height of a surge that for weeks has led the nation.