COVID-19 variants are having on younger people.Evidence suggests the variants of concern are not only more contagious, but are also leading to more severe hospitalizations — particularly for younger adults.“With the initial COVID the feeling was very much that while young people may get COVID they may not get all that sick, I think the variants have changed that … and I don’t know if people are realizing that,” Dr.
Gerald Da Roza, head of medicine at Royal Columbian Hospital, told Global News. COVID-19 variants could see B.C. set new ICU record by early April: data expert Data from Ontario public health officials found the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant, which has spread the furthest in B.C., led to a 60 per cent increase in both risk of death or.