Healthy 18-year-old speaks out after contracting COVID-19: 'It can happen to anyone'

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'Even when I heard that it spread to my home state, I still never thought that I would get it -- never in a million years.'

Mitchell's mother, Irena Yoder, took him to the emergency room where they tested him for pneumonia, the flu and strep, which all had negative results.

Dimitri Mitchell, 18, of Tiffin, Iowa, who is also a freshman at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, tested positive for the novel coronoavirus, COVID-19, March 17, 2020."Every 10 to 15 mins I was checking on him because he was breathing so hard and I was so scared," Yoder said. Older adults have been hit hardest by the virus. In China, for example, 80% of deaths were among people in their 60s or older, and experts say this general trend is playing out elsewhere, according to The Associated Press Health and Science Department.Dimitri Mitchell, 18, of Tiffin, Iowa, tested positive for the novel coronoavirus, COVID-19, March 17, 2020.

The 5-year-old had underlying health conditions, Gove said at a press conference. The boy died at King's College Hospital in London.

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