Posted by Pee Wee > 2021-04-18 16:04 | Report Abuse

If you think Africa variant is deadly, then prepare for Brazil variant! This one will see mortality rate go up!

Posted by Goldberg > 2021-04-18 16:08 | Report Abuse

Covid-19: In Brazil, young people have become the variant's prime targets

Issued on: 17/04/2021 - 12:16

Brazil's intensive care doctors have seen more and more young patients arriving at their wards in recent months, with one in two under 40 years old. The new, more contagious Brazilian variant, known as P1, seems to be affecting younger people with no pre-existing comorbidities.

More than half the patients in Brazilian intensive care units in March were under 40 years old, according to the Brazilian Association of Resuscitation Physicians. The more contagious Covid-19 variant known as P1 is claiming younger victims every day, many with no prior medical issues.

Between January and March the death toll among those between 30 and 39 jumped 353 percent, according to the latest report from the Covid-19 Observatory. At the headquarters of the Fiocruz medical institute, chief pulmonologist Margareth Dalcolmo, who is coordinating the study on the new variant, says not a day goes by without seeing more alarming numbers. And one key question: Why does the Brazilian variant claim more victims among young people?

Dalcolmo and her colleagues already have some clues. "The profile of seriously ill patients has changed. First, because of the evolution of the pandemic and the lack of lockdown measures, we see more and more young people in the streets. They are the ones who have to go to work and who cannot stand the absence of a social life any longer. So they meet in bars,” she says.

In short, Dalcolmo says, it is not that the new variant prefers young people, but it is the youth who go out and are therefore more exposed.

Posted by i3lurker > 2021-04-18 16:10 | Report Abuse

anybody young has got under developed immune systems, less infection history.
Normally rich youths will die first coz they move around in a sterile environment.

Posted by Pee Wee > 2021-04-18 16:12 | Report Abuse

This Brazil variant mutate from healthy young adults! And so if they infect not so healthy ones, then mortality is greater!
Meaning Brazil variant is healthy, more aggressive and potent!

Posted by scenery > 2021-04-18 16:14 |

Post removed.Why?