Infections among millennials and millennials lead to new waves of coronavirus cases
Psychological fatigue linked to social distancing is emerging as a major challenge in curbing a pandemic now in its eighth month. This is especially the case among young adults who are less afraid of the coronavirus and who suffer greater economic and social costs when they stay at home.
From Japan to Spain to the United States, infections among millennials and millennials are leading to new waves of cases that don’t appear to be easing despite reimposed restrictions. This disturbing trend reflects that the brakes on social distancing are proving untenable over a long period of time, despite their initial effectiveness in flattening the viral curve across the world earlier this year.
“These are the people who are most affected economically and socially by lockdowns, but who are least affected by the disease,” said Peter Collignon, professor of clinical medicine at the Australian National University of Canberra’s faculty of medicine. . “The problem we have The people we most need to change behavior are the 20’s and 30’s.”
The fact that younger people are less at risk of contracting a serious Covid-19 infection or dying has encouraged them to break the rules as job losses increase. Young adults come out for reasons that range from commuting to work or providing care, to visiting bars and nightclubs and even disturbing instances of Covid-19 parties to be deliberately infected.
This has led public figures like Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to call on the younger population to be more responsible and not to “participate in the spread of a pandemic” .
For governments facing aggressive outbreaks and an effective vaccine in a few months, there are few options outside of the call to stay home.
“How do you maintain the behavior in this group, when the consequences for them on the medical level are much less than 70 or 80 years, while the economic consequences are much greater for them?” Collignon said: “It’s a dilemma to which I don’t know the answer.”
– With the help of Sybilla Gross, Jinshan Hong and Peter Pae.
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