Coronavirus is a threat not only to the elderly and the sick. A 12-year-old girl infected with coronavirus died in Belgium. The media reports on other serious cases among very young people – a 12-year-old girl is on ventilator in a US hospital, a young woman died in the UK, and a 16-year-old girl in France.
COVID-19 can be lethal to youngsters
While statistics show lower mortality in young people infected with the coronavirus, this does not mean that all of them will get COVID-19 mildly.
On Tuesday, March 31, the Belgian health ministry announced that a 12-year-old girl who had been infected with the coronavirus had died. This is the youngest victim of the virus in Europe, reports Sky News.
Sad information a few days ago was provided by the director general of the French ministry of health, Jerome Salomon, who informed that a 16-year-old patient infected with coronavirus had died. It is not known if the teenager had other illnesses.
Due to coronavirus infection in the UK A 21-year-old woman diedwho did not belong to the high-risk group. As reported by the daily «The Sun» on Wednesday, March 25, she had no comorbidities.
In the face of this tragedy, the family of the deceased called for not to underestimate the risk of coronavirus, to follow the recommendations that are key to protecting public health and to stay at home.
Earlier in the British media it was loud about the 18-year-old from Coventry who died. As it turned out later, the man was infected with the coronavirus, but the cause of death was due to other conditions he suffered from.
The message of Fr. severe course of COVID-19 disease in a 12-year-old girl circulated in the media on Sunday, March 22. The patient is in solitary confinement at one of the hospitals in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. According to CNN, the patient had no other comorbidities and did not travel recently. At the moment, it is not known how she became infected with the coronavirus. Due to the deteriorating condition, the 12-year-old patient was connected to a ventilator on Saturday. She is under medical care and her condition is currently stable.
Statistics and expert reports show that the main risk group are seniors and the chronically ill. However, this does not mean that the coronavirus infection bypasses children and teenagers. In most cases, the youngest become infected and transmit the disease like everyone else, but the infection is milder for them. A recent study on the Chinese population shows that severe COVID-19 symptoms appear in 18,5 percent infected adults, but also in 6 percent. kids.
In the US, 20 percent. patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 are young people.
Young adults are better at coping with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, but are not immune to it. According to a report by the American agency CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), as much as 20 percent. of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus in the United States are in the 20-44 age bracket.
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