Though the coronavirus tends to have a more serious affect on older populations — with the average age of fatality victims around 80 — scientists have noticed that there is a growing number of cases where young people with no pre-existing health conditions have died from the virus.
According to CNN, Dr. Anthony Fauci even noted the trend, claiming that it is what makes the coronavirus such an “unusual disease.”
“I’m fascinated… by what I would call the pathogenesis,” Fauci continued.
“I don’t think it’s only if you’re elderly or if you have underlying conditions,” he added. “There’s something else going on there that hopefully we’ll ultimately figure out.”
Researchers have started looking into possible reasons behind the growth in serious cases in young people and have come up with three different possible hypotheses for why some young individuals with no underlying health conditions have succumbed to the disease.
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