Younger adults are getting seriously sick and ending up in the hospital because of the coronavirus, and it's alarming doctors

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• Doctors on the frontlines say they're astonished at how many relatively young people are becoming severely ill from the novel coronavirus. 
• Business Insider spoke with one 31-year-old New York doctor who was about to be admitted to the ICU before starting to recover from COVID-19. 
• "For someone in their 40s, 50s, you want to try every thing you can to get them to survive," one ICU doctor told Business Insider.
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When Dr. Anar Yukhayev's patient told him she'd developed a fever after a recent trip to Italy, he ran out of the room and grabbed a mask for each of them.

By that point, the 31-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist had been face-to-face with her for 20 minutes.

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