CDC: 1 in 5 hospitalized younger adults with COVID-19 need ICU careWhile younger adults with no underlying health conditions have been considered safer from COVID-19's severe outcomes, of those who were hospitalized, 22% were admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), 10% needed mechanical ventilation, and 0.6% (3 patients) died, reports a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.The researchers, led by scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) team, used data from the network to look at patients to look at patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from March through August.