While mortality among 15-44 year-olds from Covid represents 0.5% of the total deaths recorded since the start of the epidemic, the consequences of an infection should not be neglected.

No fewer than 235 Covid patients under the age of 50 are currently in intensive care.

But that's without counting on these young people who suffer after-effects for many months. 

"We can still give ourselves a chance to avoid confinement," Prime Minister Jean Castex said Friday evening after a defense council.

In this short speech, the head of government announced in particular the closure of borders, except "imperative reason", to countries outside the European Union, but did not mention young people.

However, a column by Gaspard Koenig published in 

Les Echos

last week has gone viral.

In this post, the philosopher wonders about this part of the population which suffers the full brunt of the consequences of health measures to save their elders.

He states in particular that there are only 60 deaths from the coronavirus among 15-44 year olds.

A somewhat underestimated figure. 

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0.5% of the 75,620 recorded deaths concern 15-44 year olds

Because by consulting the number of deaths from Covid-19 by age group with figures from Public Health France and the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), we see that a little more than 400 people who have up to 'at 44 years old succumbed to the disease in France.

Or 0.5% of the 75,620 deaths recorded since the start of the epidemic.

Conversely, we observe that 93% of coronavirus deaths are 65 years old or over and that on average the victims of the pandemic are 81 years old. 

If mortality is therefore infinitesimal among 15-44 year olds, that does not mean that Covid-19 does not hit them hard.

No fewer than 235 Covid patients under the age of 50 are currently in intensive care.

But that's without counting on these young people who caught the virus, and left the hospital with sequelae for very long months.

"Long Covid" could represent up to 30% of all patients, according to a study by the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris. 

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"I am 24 years old, I am in the hospital in intensive care of cardiology"

Among these patients, Guillaume, 24, who contracted the coronavirus last June and has since developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.

If he initially thought he had a "Covid light with loss of taste and smell", he realized a few weeks later that he had developed this pathology.

"I am 24 years old, I am in the hospital in intensive care of cardiology", he testifies at the microphone of Europe 1. "In the room next door there is a person who had a heart attack , another had a stroke ... I'm in the middle of wondering if I really deserve to be there, and I'm being told that I am. " 

And things do not end there for Guillaume.

In addition to medication, he should monitor his blood pressure.

"At 24, you don't have a blood pressure monitor [normally]. [...] As soon as I hear the word 'Covid' I think about it".

And to conclude: "Because of that [of the coronavirus,

editor's note

] I will be subject to cardiovascular diseases in 20/30 years. There will be a whole chain of consequences that I am discovering a little from day to day."