Younger Americans are at considerable risk to contract coronavirus, according to a new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report analyzed the data on 2,500 of the first recorded cases in the United States, according to The New York Times. The CDC found that while older patients were still more likely to be hospitalized or die from an infection, 38 percent of the patients who were hospitalized were between ages 20 and 54.
About half of the 121 patients who have been admitted to intensive care units were adults under 65. Of the 44 individuals whose deaths were noted in the report, 15 were 85 or older and 20 were between the ages of 65 to 84. There were nine recorded deaths in the adults 20 to 64 age group.
“It’s not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that they’re young and healthy,” said Stephen S. Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.