The coronavirus is killing Americans under age 50

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

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Summary

Chris Mooney reports on the science of why some younger people are getting better, while others are dying of covid-19. Griff Witte reports on how parties and gatherings became clusters. And Annie Gowen on coronavirus deniers.

The medical mystery of why some people under age 50 are dying of covid-19.

The coronavirus had already reached the United States, but the parties went on. Experts say the inconsistent manner that social gatherings shut down across states gave the illness a head start.

Some people deny the seriousness of the global pandemic as a plot to get President Trump.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.6	Hello, Hayo.
0:06.6	Here's the Nureesa back from the Washington Post.
0:08.8	Hi, this is Beth Ryan, the Washington Post.
0:10.8	Glory are turning over to the post.
0:12.8	I'm...
0:13.8	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.4	It's Thursday, April 16th.
0:23.4	Today, the science of why some young people are dying from coronavirus, the gatherings
0:28.9	that became outbreaks and virus deniers.
0:36.3	Over the past few weeks, reporters of the post have been trying to figure out how many
0:40.4	younger people are dying from COVID-19, and by younger people, we're talking about people
0:45.7	under the age of 50.
0:48.8	So these reporters track down data on coronavirus deaths from a bunch of different state agencies.
0:55.0	What we found is that older people have more of a risk, but the risk does not stand at
1:01.0	zero for younger people.
1:03.6	That's reporter Chris Mooney.
1:05.0	He found that, as of last week, at least 759 younger people had died of COVID-19.
1:11.8	That's certainly not as much as the fatalities among older people.
1:15.2	But what we wanted to draw attention to is the fact that it does happen, and sometimes
1:20.5	it appears that for some reason that no one is in the position to explain yet, the disease
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