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New York Times: Is the Delta variant making younger adults ‘sicker, quicker’?

Published Aug. 4, 2021. Updated Aug. 4 at 8:59 am

Health workers conduct COVID-19 tests at the St. Vincent's Hospital drive-through testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney June 27, 2021, on the first full day of a two-week coronavirus lockdown to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant.

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Recently, a 28-year-old patient died of Covid-19 at CoxHealth Medical Center in Springfield, Mo. Last week, a 21-year-old college student was admitted to intensive care. Many of the patients with Covid-19 now arriving at the hospital are not just unvaccinated — they are much younger than 50, a stark departure from the frail, older patients seen when the pandemic first surged last year.