Coronapod: Will COVID become a disease of the young?
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
For much of the pandemic, the greatest burden of disease has been felt by older generations. But now, for the first time, vaccine roll outs are starting to skew the average age of those infections towards the young. This has led many researchers to ask what this might mean for the future of the pandemic. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss what we know and what we don't know about this change in the demographic profile of COVID infections. We ask how this might impact global vaccination efforts, disease transmission and the health and wellbeing of young people.
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| 1:15.6 | Welcome to CoronaPod. In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:24.6 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 1:31.8 | We're entering a new era now. We have new COVID strategies. |
| 1:35.6 | There's some new unknowns and we've got a vaccine. |
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