Dr Antonio Pesenti, the head of Lombardy's intensive crisis care unit, said many younger people were being admitted to hospital with severe cases of the coronavirus
In the United States, research by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention found that 705 of the first 2,500 coronavirus patients in the country were aged between 20 and 44.The US coronavirus task force co-ordinator has now said she is concerned there could be a disproportionate amount of millennial cases.
Their study of more than 2,000 young children with COVID-19 found that 11% of cases in infants were classed as severe or critical. Only five people younger than that are so far known to have died because of the coronavirus, and they all had underlying health conditions. On Thursday, England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said the vast majority of people in all age groups would recover from COVID-19.But he said that young people should not assume they would be unaffected the disease.
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