The spread in America has been concentrated in big cities like New York, which tend to be younger
worrying data points from the coronavirus crisis, one in particular has struck Americans. In a report published on March 18th the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that of the 508 known patients to have been hospitalised in the United States by March 16th, two-fifths were younger than 55. Of those, half were between 20 and 44. For a virus that is meant mostly to affect elderly people, those figures were extremely worrying.
The report set off a storm. On March 22nd Anthony Fauci, a leading member of the White House’s task-force on the disease, noted that young people are certainly not immune. “All bets are off, no matter how young you are, if you have an underlying, serious medical condition,” said the doctor.
It remains to be seen whether young people will continue to make up such large proportions of those hospitalised. But it seems unlikely. Since the’s research was published, the number of confirmed cases in America has leapt from 4,226 to over 65,000. Thehas not updated its figures on hospitalisation. There are some reasons why, at least in the early stages of the epidemic, young people might have been particularly affected. than the rest of the country.
But there are some reasons to remain concerned about younger Americans. Research on the virus in China suggests that obese people, those with high blood pressure and those with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes may be more vulnerable. All those factors are especially prevalent in America. In Italy around 20% of people are obese; in America the figure is 36%. Over a tenth of Americans suffer from diabetes. Not all are old.
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