Young People Far From Immune to Coronavirus’ Bite

Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, epidemiologist, Harvard University.

Natalie Dean, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville.

NBCNews.com: “Coronavirus comes for spring break: Local officials close Florida beaches after governor refuses to.”

 Law.com: “David Lat, Battling COVID-19, Speaks From Hospital About Fears, Hopes and What People Should Know.”

The Boston Globe: “She attended the Biogen conference, got miserably sick, and came through it.”

Bangor Daily News: “Former Bates College athlete in critical condition with COVID-19.”

Twitter: @brosandprose, March 24, 2020.

CDC: “Severe Outcomes Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) — United States, February 12-March 16, 2020.” 

China CDC Weekly: “Vital Surveillances: The Epidemiological Characteristics of an Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19) — China, 2020.”

Jennifer Kates, PhD, senior vice president, Kaiser Family Foundation.

The
Cincinnati Enquirer: “Kentucky resident contracts COVID-19 after attending ‘coronavirus party.’”

CBS News: “Florida college students test positive for coronavirus after going on spring break.”

Caroline Buckee, DPhil, associate professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Business Insider: “Several young doctors in China have died of the coronavirus. Medical workers are far more vulnerable to infection than the general population.”