Majority of Brazil COVID-19 ICU patients aged 40 years or younger: Report

Medical workers take care of patients in the emergency room of the Nossa Senhora da Conceicao hospital that is overcrowding because of the coronavirus outbreak, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Mar 11, 2021. RIO DE JANEIRO: The surging COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil is increasingly affecting younger people, with hospital data showing that last month the majority of those in intensive care were aged 40 or younger, according to a new report.

It is not clear why more young people are falling seriously ill during the current wave of the virus in Brazil, but some scientists think the new P1 variant that originated in the Amazon city of Manaus could be at least partly to blame. In a separate report, public health institute Fiocruz said the trend was putting additional pressure on Brazil's health system because younger patients tend to spend longer in intensive care.Brazil is currently the global epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, with daily deaths last week surpassing 4,000.

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