On: Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

[dharma1]

It's too early to say with reliable data. We will definitely know in 2-3 weeks with data from many European countries. In Italy, it looks like the percentage of younger hospitalised people is 12%, but growing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...

[vanniv → dharma1]

That is not 12% of cases. That is 12% of hospitalizations are under the age for 50.

The overall hospitalization rate is difficult to know, due to the huge inaccuracies in the case numbers.

[robryk → dharma1]

12% of _COVID ICU patients_ in Italy are below 50 years old. Note that this doesn't let us answer the question of how common are ICU cases among young infected people.

[mantap → robryk]

And the question was about hospital admissions not ICU admissions anyway.