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'There may be very serious cases': CDC urges youth not to ignore the threat of coronavirus

While people around the world isolate themselves in quarantine, drunk students have parties on the beaches of Miami in Florida, writes Air force.

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Young people often think that they are invulnerable, but this is not so.

“If I catch coronavirus, then so be it. And I won’t let this stop me from enjoying life,” one very red-faced young man said to the camera. The video went viral on the Internet and outraged users.

Many people in the USA are wondering if doctors clearly explain the situation with the virus to young people.

The data on the earliest cases recorded in the country indicate that it is no less dangerous for young people than for everyone else.

New data

At the moment, there is not enough testing to say exactly who is more susceptible to infection and what are the mechanisms of transmission of the virus.

Until now, doctors have made rough predictions for age groups, and it was believed that there will be a small number of young patients.

However, a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that the ratio may be very different.

The report's authors analyzed 2500 confirmed cases of coronavirus and noted that 20% of those sick were people aged 20-44 years and 38% were from 20 to 54 years old.

According to them, 20-30-year-olds are not much less likely to go to hospitals than 50-60-year-olds.

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At the same time, indeed, the majority of those who died from Covid-19 are elderly people. 14,8% of all deaths in the world occur in patients over 85 years of age and only 0,2% in those under 40.

But this does not mean that a young body cannot pick up a virus or carries a disease in a milder form.

The authors of the CDC report also note that only a few young patients diagnosed with Covid-19 were in intensive care, usually their disease is less severe. But they still create a burden on the healthcare system.

According to official data published last week in Italy, 12% of cases brought to intensive care are in the 19-50 age group. Information from France also suggests that the number of infected among young people is growing.

Some experts at the same time call for restraint in the new data.

Mark Lipsitz, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard Health School, said in a BBC comment that he was surprised at the CDC’s decision to release such a report.

Testing in the USA and in many other countries of the world was carried out in only three specific groups: among people who returned from the epidemic zone; among those in contact with people with a confirmed diagnosis, and in the case of pronounced symptoms.

Data in all three categories was collected by different methods, and it is incorrect to draw conclusions based on them, since there is no holistic picture, the expert believes.

“I think it’s safe to say that in general young people have a milder form of the disease, but there can be very severe cases among them,” says Professor Lipsitz.

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Therefore, the expert believes, the strategy of developing “group immunity” is not applicable in this case. Young people are a very large group, even a small percentage of seriously ill people among them is a lot in absolute numbers.

It is encouraging that children and adolescents almost never end up in the hospital with coronavirus. Statistics from all countries without exception show that people under the age of 19 are much less likely to be affected by Covid-19. Scientists do not yet understand why this is happening.

The latest data also show that young and healthy people, even if they are not sick themselves, can be carriers of the virus and transmit it to people at risk - the elderly and those suffering from chronic diseases.

WHO and US authorities continue to urge: wash your hands, distance yourself from each other and avoid parties in Miami Beach.

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