There’s already reason to believe the virus may have a different effect on the population in the US than in China. Last Wednesday, the CDC released a report detailing US cases from February 12 to March 16 which found that while people over the age of 65 still make up the majority of severe cases, 38 percent of those sick enough to be hospitalized were younger than 55. Compare that to data from mainland China, recently compiled by researchers at Imperial College in the UK, which found that only 16 percent of Covid-19 patients under the age of 60 had to be hospitalized. According to the CDC report, no one under the age of 19 in the US has had symptoms serious enough to require intensive care for Covid-19.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/most-kids-only-get-mildly-sick-from-covid-19-but-not-all/
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