In Tampa Bay, all six counties are seeing the younger population contract higher rates of COVID-19.
It’s a population that is less likely to die as the result of COVID-19 but can easily pass it on to those who are of higher risk. According to the Florida Department of Health, most of the state’s cases are within the 25-34 age group.
“Now deaths continue to drop, which is great. But deaths is a very lagging indicator,” said Dr. Charles Lockwood, the Dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. “You know for young people, yeah, they may not die. There’s a very low mortality rate.
“But when young people get infected, they go home and they infect their parents.”
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