{"id":121600,"date":"2021-05-06T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121600"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T04:56:40","slug":"covid-19-deaths-hospitalizations-soar-among-youth-in-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121600","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 deaths, hospitalizations soar among youth in Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PAHO.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PAHO-696x348.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Hospitalizations and deaths of younger people are surging as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across Latin America and the Caribbean, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa Etienne said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdults of all ages \u2013 including young people \u2013 are becoming seriously ill. Many of them are dying,\u201d Etienne said at her daily press briefing as quoted in a PAHO release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Brazil, mortality rates doubled among those younger than 39, quadrupled among those in their 40s, and tripled for those in their 50s, between December 2020 and March 2021, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor much of the pandemic, our hospitals were filled with elderly COVID patients, many of whom had pre-existing conditions that made them more susceptible to severe disease,\u201d Etienne said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut look around intensive care units across our region today. You\u2019ll see they\u2019re filled not only with elderly patients, but also with younger people.\u201d<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Etienne urged hospitals in the region to increase the size of intensive care units (ICU) in anticipation that the trend will continue, while warning that expansion of ICUs cannot continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, she urged nations to double down on prevention measures such as lockdowns and facemasks.<span style=\"background-color: rgb(232, 234, 235);\"><b> &#8212;\u00a0NNN-AGENCIES<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Hospitalizations and deaths of younger people are surging as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates across Latin America and the Caribbean, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa Etienne said. \u201cAdults of all ages \u2013 including young people \u2013 are becoming seriously ill. Many of them are dying,\u201d Etienne said at her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}