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<blockquote data-quote="Winnie53" data-source="post: 2235103" data-attributes="member: 160246"><p>As a mother of son in his early 30's, not sure if enough is known about this yet regarding anecdotal reports from Italy, but here it is, an excerpt from the CNN transcript...</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>DR. PETER HOTEZ, PROFESSOR AND DEAN, TROPICAL MEDICINE, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: Yes, so let's take it in a couple of steps. First of all, what Dr. Fauci said -- very eloquently said as he always does was absolutely right. We're very concerned about young people, young adults, spreading virus throughout the community and infecting the population that we know is at the highest risk, older individuals and we're also concerned about our health care workers.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>But there's a few other things to note. That is one among young adults even though on average they are at less risk for serious disease, you're still going to get those outliers that get very seriously ill. So that is an important point, number one.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Number two, what we're seeing in Italy, and again this is not published in the scientific literature, so it's still the kind of the anecdote state, we're hearing about it, that there is an unexpectedly significant number of young adults that are getting seriously ill and in the ICU. And this is what is concerning a lot of us because you know, so much of what we've taken about this epidemic were based on what we've seen in China.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Which had a very clear pattern of overwhelmingly adults. But what we're seeing now in Italy looks like it is a little bit different. So, it is giving us pause for concern. Is the epidemic in the United States going to look more like China or what's going on in Italy?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>And it's too early to say right now in the U.S. So, I think that is one of the drivers maybe for why we're being so aggressive right now in getting the bars closed, the restaurants closed, that there is somewhat of a heightened concern about young adults.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>BALDWIN: And as Fauci said over the weekend, you know I'd rather be overly cautious. You know, make people stay into a greater degree and then on the back end be grateful and know that that was overly so, just so we can, you know, flatten the curve. As everyone is saying stop the spread.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HOTEZ: We're seeing 25, 30-year-old adults in the ICU. Not so much the adolescents and the kids yet, but we are -- occasionally it does happen as well. But it is that unexpected little twist that we're seeing in Italy that is giving a lot of people pause for concern.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/17/cnr.08.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/17/cnr.08.html</a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>In the US, Washington State statistics on 1,012 positive/confirmed cases CORVID-19 - (as of March 17, 2020)...</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Confirmed Cases by Age</span></strong></p><p><strong>0 to 19 years</strong> <strong>2%</strong></p><p><strong>20 to 29 years</strong> <strong>7%</strong></p><p><strong>30 to 39 years</strong> <strong>12%</strong></p><p><strong>40 to 49 years</strong> <strong>14%</strong></p><p><strong>50 to 59 years</strong> <strong>16%</strong></p><p><strong>60 to 69 years</strong> <strong>15%</strong></p><p><strong>70 to 79 years</strong> <strong>17%</strong></p><p><strong>80+ years</strong> <strong>17%</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus" target="_blank">https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus</a></p><p></p><p>And this from our local newspaper... We have 7 confirmed/confirmed COVID-19 cases in our county. Of those, one is a male teenager. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241304661.html" target="_blank">https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241304661.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Winnie53, post: 2235103, member: 160246"] As a mother of son in his early 30's, not sure if enough is known about this yet regarding anecdotal reports from Italy, but here it is, an excerpt from the CNN transcript... [INDENT][I]DR. PETER HOTEZ, PROFESSOR AND DEAN, TROPICAL MEDICINE, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: Yes, so let's take it in a couple of steps. First of all, what Dr. Fauci said -- very eloquently said as he always does was absolutely right. We're very concerned about young people, young adults, spreading virus throughout the community and infecting the population that we know is at the highest risk, older individuals and we're also concerned about our health care workers. But there's a few other things to note. That is one among young adults even though on average they are at less risk for serious disease, you're still going to get those outliers that get very seriously ill. So that is an important point, number one. Number two, what we're seeing in Italy, and again this is not published in the scientific literature, so it's still the kind of the anecdote state, we're hearing about it, that there is an unexpectedly significant number of young adults that are getting seriously ill and in the ICU. And this is what is concerning a lot of us because you know, so much of what we've taken about this epidemic were based on what we've seen in China. Which had a very clear pattern of overwhelmingly adults. But what we're seeing now in Italy looks like it is a little bit different. So, it is giving us pause for concern. Is the epidemic in the United States going to look more like China or what's going on in Italy? And it's too early to say right now in the U.S. So, I think that is one of the drivers maybe for why we're being so aggressive right now in getting the bars closed, the restaurants closed, that there is somewhat of a heightened concern about young adults. BALDWIN: And as Fauci said over the weekend, you know I'd rather be overly cautious. You know, make people stay into a greater degree and then on the back end be grateful and know that that was overly so, just so we can, you know, flatten the curve. As everyone is saying stop the spread. HOTEZ: We're seeing 25, 30-year-old adults in the ICU. Not so much the adolescents and the kids yet, but we are -- occasionally it does happen as well. But it is that unexpected little twist that we're seeing in Italy that is giving a lot of people pause for concern.[/I] [URL]http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/17/cnr.08.html[/URL] [/INDENT] In the US, Washington State statistics on 1,012 positive/confirmed cases CORVID-19 - (as of March 17, 2020)... [B][SIZE=4]Confirmed Cases by Age[/SIZE] 0 to 19 years[/B] [B]2% 20 to 29 years[/B] [B]7% 30 to 39 years[/B] [B]12% 40 to 49 years[/B] [B]14% 50 to 59 years[/B] [B]16% 60 to 69 years[/B] [B]15% 70 to 79 years[/B] [B]17% 80+ years[/B] [B]17% [/B] [URL]https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus[/URL] And this from our local newspaper... We have 7 confirmed/confirmed COVID-19 cases in our county. Of those, one is a male teenager. [URL]https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241304661.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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