EXCERPT:
REPORTER: “And do we know why the — why younger people might be more at risk, or?”
GOUNDER: “We don’t know for sure, and in fact these death certificates are probably not even capturing the fact that they might have had Covid. They’re really just saying did you die from a heart attack or not. What we do know, however, is that younger people were less likely to protect themselves against Covid than older people, less likely to mask, less likely to take other mitigation measures, and they were also farther back in line to get vaccinated, so they were not protected with vaccination until later in the pandemic. Those might have been a factor here.”
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