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Average age of those hospitalized for COVID falls dramatically

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Doctors tending the COVID wings in local hospitals are sucking in their breath for different reasons. Patient numbers are nothing like they were at the height of the winter surge, but the people in their care now are younger and often very sick. “We had stopped seeing as many badly ill patients about three-four weeks ago,” said Dr. Richard Walker, head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. “Our ‘gut’ feeling was backed up by an observable increase in ICU admits,” he said.

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