The median age of coronavirus patients in the state has dropped since reopening. Dr. Cheryl Holder of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University discusses why.
The records come after life in the state has resumed post-lockdown. Most of Florida is now in phase 2 of reopening; bars, movie theaters and tattoo parlors opened, with restrictions, earlier this month.
Holder is seeing the state's rise in coronavirus cases up close. She's treating coronavirus patients in Miami, one of the areas hardest hit by the spike in cases.Are you treating young people? Is there any sort of warning that you can give to younger people that even if you're not going to be on a ventilator, this is still a dangerous disease?
The issue I always tell my patients is that yeah, when you look at population studies, when you look a large group of numbers, yes, maybe a percentage won't get it, or maybe a percentage will not get it as badly, but willbe in that percentage? You have no clue that you will be that person who will be well. And also, even if you get this infection, we don't know what's going to happen 5, 10, 20 years down the line from an infection that we know so little about.
I don't think the message has been clear enough, so I can't say young folks are being disobedient and invincible completely. But because the message hasn't been consistent, and we see many times people are out without masks, and they seem to be well, that we will take a chance. Everyone's ability to take risk varies. And younger people will take more risks.
It's not airborne, but if somebody is speaking and the droplets come out at you, it's anything to protect you. The key is we've got to protect ourselves and our communities until a vaccine comes in or even proper treatment.
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