Dr. Anthony Fauci Says The Average Age Of U.S. Coronavirus Patients Has Dropped By 15 Years As Sun B
Source: CNBC
(3 hrs ago, By Noah Higgins-Dunn). The average age of new coronavirus patients has dropped by roughly 15 years compared with only a few months ago as the coronavirus reignites in America's Sun Belt, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.
Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a Q&A discussion with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, that the resurgence of cases in the U.S. are an extension of the outbreak first reported earlier this year, not a second wave. "It's a serious situation that we have to address immediately," he said.
The U.S. has continued to push farther beyond what some previously thought was its peak earlier this year, reporting thousands of new cases each day. States like Florida and Texas have recently reported daily infections in the thousands and growing hospitalizations. Cases surged after some states rushed to reopened their economies in May. Many have since walked back their reopenings, re-closing bars and indoor dining at restaurants as many young people disregarded recommended social distancing a face mask recommendations, officials say. "The average age of people getting infected now is a decade and a half younger than it was a few months ago particularly when New York and New Orleans and Chicago were getting hit very badly," Fauci said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the median age of new Covid-19 patients in his state, which reported a record number of new cases over the holiday weekend, has reached a low of 33. By comparison, the median age of a newly diagnosed coronavirus patient in their 50s and 60s in March and April, he said at a press conference Monday. "Now why is that important? Well, because this is a virus that does not affect all age groups equally. It's much more lethal for people who are in their 80s and 90s than it is in your 20s and 30s," he said."...
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- Dr. Fauci warned that while young people are less likely to develop serious illnesses from Covid-19, the virus could still "put them out of action for weeks at a time." He also said young people should remember that when they're infected, there's the likelihood that they could spread the disease to people who are at a high risk of serious illness...
- FL Gov. DeSantis stated the fatality rate is significantly lower among Gen Y and millennials, also adding that many of those cases are asymptomatic. "Just because you're 21 and you may not have significant symptoms that does not mean you can't affect other people and I think that's something that we're concerned about."...
Bernardo de La Paz
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(1,893 posts)safeinOhio
(32,736 posts)Just like Mexico will pay for it.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)calclar
(55 posts)political manipulation will be the downfall of us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)And who are you accusing?
IronLionZion
(45,562 posts)FBaggins
(26,775 posts)You still have to have some symptoms in many areas to get tested... but at first the testing was much more constrained to those who were far more likely to need admission to the hospital. This necessarily leaned more heavily toward older patients. That doesn't mean that the people who are catching the virus are younger than two or three months ago... just that the population we're identifying is younger.
This likely explains why the hospitalization rate is growing much slower than the measured infection rate we're seeing... and why the measured death rate is still falling even three weeks after an apparent inflection in infections. We aren't just testing more people... we're testing a different demographic blend.
I'm not sure that changes much. We still need to be protecting the most at-risk.
Igel
(35,363 posts)It's just that COVID symptoms and infectiousness vary by age.
Positivity rate has increased--a bad thing.
Increased case load = increased testing, increased infection rate. Both/and, not either/or.