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An article here (in French, sorry) notes that the average age of hospital cases is dropping.
General admissions or ICU? It's the later that's important.
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Certainly some of their ICU cases are being sent outside the country. Some of the Luxembourg deaths are French ICU patients transferred to the hospitals here.
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General admissions or ICU? It's the later that's important.
In intensive care, rather than general admissions.
("hospitalisés en réanimation" = hospitalised in intensive care)"More than 5,100 patients were hospitalized in intensive care on Monday in France."
"...the median age of critically ill intensive care patients had dropped from 60 to 58 years. Half of these patients are therefore under 58 years of age now."
"...the reason for the drop in age of patients is due to the dynamics of the epidemic. Older patients go to hospital first and end up in intensive care, before a second wave of younger patients follows.."
"...we get the sickest patients in the first days; older, more fragile, who resist the virus the least. Then a little later the younger people arrive, those who wanted to stay at home for longer, but who realise that they can't stay any longer because they have respiratory complications and trouble breathing."
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Philbythesea
Purely anecdotal evidence from medical staff at my wife's hospital, is that about half of the hospitalised covid-19 patients in France are under 60 years old.
An article here (in French, sorry) notes that the average age of hospital cases is dropping. Currently at 58 years old for France (partly explained by younger people managing the symptoms better and waiting longer than older people before going to hospital).
https://www.bfmtv.com/sante/coronavirus-pourquoi-l-age-median-des-patients-hospitalises-en-reanimation-baisse-t-il-1884941.html
But the average age of actual (hospital) deaths is 81 years old:
https://sante.journaldesfemmes.fr/maladies/2622115-coronavirus-victime-mort-deces-france-age-femme-homme-jeune-qui-meurt/