Younger adults can get very sick and die from COVID too. Here's what the data tell us

  • Written by: Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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We learned this week of the tragic death of a 27-year-old man from Sydney who had COVID-19. This follows a 38-year-old woman who died from the virus last month.

Throughout the current Delta outbreak in New South Wales, we’ve heard young people are making up a greater proportion of people in hospital compared with earlier in the...

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