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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. You know the other day we had a bright sunny day as we do today in New York after many days of gloomy

darkness and cold and I went outside to get some milk and saw the streets

were full of people and they were all young people who'd

somehow gotten the message that this is only dangerous for old people.

Lori Garrett Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of the 1995 book The Coming Plague,

Newly Emerging Diseases Diseases in a World Out of Balance.

She's been on the pandemic beat for decades.

She was interviewed recently on the new

sustain what webcast launched last month by longtime journalist Andrew

Revkin. He now runs an initiative on communication and sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

You know, the misinformation that's come out is just incredible.

And a lot of politicians are the major vehicles of this misinformation.

They've somehow gotten the word that young people can't get sick, young people can't die,

they won't be hospitalized, it's really not a problem, It's only old people like me that can get sick and die.

So what the heck? I'll go ahead and go out and wander around and go jogging and hang out in the park with my friends for a picnic and you know if I get

infected it's no biggie. Well it is a biggie because you can infect others, you can pass your

virus on, you perpetuate the epidemic, and yes, you can get sick.

40% of the seriously ill hospitalized people in New York City right now,

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