Very Few Healthy Young Adults Die From Severe COVID-19 Hospitalization

The journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reported on December 3, 2020, that while younger adults (18 - 49 years) with no underlying health conditions have been considered safer from COVID-19's severe outcomes, of those who were eventually hospitalized for the new disease, 22% were admitted to intensive care units, 10% needed mechanical ventilation.

However, of the 513 patients in this study based on CDC data, only 0.6% (3 patients) died.