By contrast, about two-thirds of adults 65 and older said they were closely following news about the pandemic.
Less than half of Americans under 30 closely follow updates on the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.
In comparison, about two-thirds of adults 65 and older said they were closely following pandemic news during both survey windows, the poll showed. The attention that Americans between 30 and 65 paid to coronavirus news varied between those two percentages, with interest appearing to increase with age. A 30-to-65 group showed a spike in interest averaging between 9 and 10 percent by the time the second survey concluded, researchers wrote.
That same week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report that showed 38 percent of patients who at that point had been hospitalized in the U.S. were between the ages of 20 and 54. While the CDC said Americans 19 and younger often displayed milder COVID-19 symptoms, officials said those who contracted the virus could still pass it on to others within more vulnerable communities and might be at risk for developing complications that required hospitalization.
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