Covid 19 coronavirus: A study shows that Covid is leading the death of young people in some US states.

Despite US President Donald Trump claiming that his son Barron’s coronavirus infection “disappeared” after “15 minutes,” a new study says the virus has likely become the leading cause of death. among youth in some regions of the United States.

For people between the ages of 25 and 44 who live in one of the 11 states with high infection rates, such as New York, Arkansas and Arizona, the chance of dying from Covid-19 is greater than any other risk, the researchers found.

In these states, 2,450 young adults died from coronavirus between March and July, slightly more than those who died in 2018 (the latest figure available) from accidental drug overdoses, previously the leading cause of death in this age group.

“In these regions, mortality from Covid-19 also resembles that of the HIV / AIDS epidemic at its peak in the United States,” said the team led by Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust of Harvard Medical School. in a non-peer-reviewed article published on medrxiv.org on Sunday.

Faust and his colleagues examined data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and found that in 2020 the number of deaths from all causes among young people through the end of July this year it was a quarter higher than in the same period. last year.

The 14,155 excess deaths had a maximum increase in May, but only a small fraction was directly attributed to the coronavirus.

This implies that “Covid-19 mortality has been substantially under-detected in the younger adult population,” they said.

During his recent rallies at venues across the country, Trump has been using Barron’s apparent rapid recovery from the coronavirus as an example of why it’s okay for schools to reopen.

“A young and strong immune system, right?” Trump said during a rally in the Wisconsin battlefield state on Saturday.

“Let’s go back to school. Let’s go back to school. No, that’s true. We tested positive and then 15 minutes later I said, ‘How are you doctor? Okay,” Trump said during that speech.

A Shanghai-based life scientist studying the Sars-CoV-2 virus said the study deepened her concern for young people in the US.

“It is immoral and irresponsible to allow young Americans to become infected to achieve herd immunity,” he said.

A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases this month reported that a 25-year-old man in Nevada had considerably worse symptoms after contracting the new coronavirus a second time.

The Shanghai-based investigator said there could be more cases of reinfection, including a 30-year-old woman in Wisconsin that the investigator knew personally.

“This could be the beginning of an explosion,” said the researcher who asked not to be identified because she does not have the approval of the Chinese government to comment.

Trump has claimed, without proof, that American doctors and hospitals were inflating data, including deaths related to the coronavirus, to increase their own financial interest.

“If someone is terminally ill with cancer and has Covid, we report it. And you know doctors get more money and hospitals get more money, think about this incentive,” Trump said during a rally in Illinois on Saturday.

Trump added that he would “start looking into things” as “his reporting systems are really not doing well.”

Faust said that “doctors are angry right now” over Trump’s allegations.

“But we are data-driven and we want to offer solutions,” he tweeted on Sunday.

“If we were cooking the books, why is the excess of deaths from all causes and official deaths from Covid-19 still so closely over time?” He said in a separate tweet.

Older patients are several hundred times more likely to die from Covid-19 than younger populations, according to studies by researchers from around the world. The burden of disease in younger generations received relatively less attention, according to Faust.

Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and currently the chief scientific advisor to the White House pandemic response team, said there is no problem with young people getting infected as long as their elders remain in protective care.

“Doesn’t it matter if younger, healthier people get infected? They have almost zero risk of having a problem from this,” he said in a television interview in July.

But a study by British researchers published on medrxiv.org this month found that young adult patients with no medical history could have lasting health problems after recovering from Covid-19. More than 70 percent of young patients suffered damage to one or more organs four months after the initial infection.

Long-lasting symptoms included fatigue, muscle pain, shortness of breath, and headaches.

– South China morning post