Young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 account for a growing share of new COVID-19 cases and patients in hospitals — even as surveys show that group with a higher rate of hesitancy for the vaccine.
“Young people need to understand that even if they get COVID, they can be symptomatic for quite some time — it can change their life, at least in the near term, even if it doesn’t put them in intensive care units,” said Shannon Carson, MD, chief of the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine, in a WNCN interview.