The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday it’s seeing more cases of young people becoming severely ill from the coronavirus, warning it’s a mistake to believe the virus only affects older people.
“We are seeing more and more younger individuals who are experiencing severe disease,” Maria Van Kerkhove, a doctor and epidemiologist with WHO, said during a news briefing Friday.
“We’ve seen some data from Italy, we’ve seen some data from China, we’ve seen some data from a number of countries across Europe where people of younger age have died,” she said. “Some of those individuals have had underlying conditions, but some have not.”
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Kerkhove said while most infected patients who experience severe illnesses tend to be older or have underlying health issues, some countries are seeing patients in their 30s, 40s and 50s who are in intensive care units or have died. WHO officials said it is not yet clear why some develop a severe illness and why others do not.
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Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s emergencies program, said 10 to 15 percent of all people in intensive care in Italy, which has had one of the largest outbreaks in the world, are younger than 50. In Korea, 1 in 6 deaths occurred in people younger than 60.
“We collectively have been living in a world where we’ve tried to convince ourselves that this disease is mild in young people and more severe in older people and that’s where the problem is,” Ryan said during the news briefing.
WHO on Thursday reported that more than 95 percent of all coronavirus fatalities in Europe were among patients aged 60 or older. More than 80 percent of adults older than 60 who died had one or more underlying conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and more than half of those who died were older than 80.
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