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Months ago, as the coronavirus was first spreading across the country, public health officials warned of the heightened risk it posed to older populations and those with underlying health conditions.
But officials are now warning of the growing impact Covid-19 is having on young people, like 29-year-old Jerry Ward, who told CNN he had to be hospitalized after going to a house party for a cousins birthday.
Three days later, everyone started texting, to say they werent feeling well, Ward told CNN from his hospital room at Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, Florida.
According to him, ten people in their late 20s and early 30s from that party in South Florida have since been diagnosed with Covid-19.
They should take it serious, Ward said of young people. Only go to places that are needed, such as doctors appointments, work, stuff of that nature.
According to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the median age of positive Covid-19 cases in March was 65 years old. But within the last week, it has dropped to 35 years old.
As of Thursday, Florida had more than 114,000 cases of Covid-19, with more than 3,300 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Approximately 20 of cases are patients between the ages of 25 and 34, per data released by the state Department of Health on Thursday.
What weve seen, particularly over the last week, is a real explosion in new cases amongst our younger demographics, DeSantis said in a news conference in Orlando earlier this week.
Half of these positive tests are in that 34 and under age group, and the bulk of the tests that we are seeing are really the 25- to 34-year-olds, the governor said. They represent the largest share of all positive tests by a pretty decent margin for anyone throughout the course of the pandemic.
The situation in Florida grew grimmer Thursday, after reports of two deaths of Covid-19 patients under the age of 18. In the past, DeSantis, a Republican, had pointed to the lack of deaths among minors to support his effort to reopen Florida schools this fall.
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