This is what makes discussions on this subject infuriating. Most people only have access to the absolute death numbers, and yet try to draw conclusions from them.

If it is the case, as you say, that a significant fraction of young people need to go into intensive care to have a chance to recover, that makes this pandemic much worse than most people think.

I do know that the number of hospitalizations is high (and possibly should be higher still, if hospitals were not turning away patients)