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"...there is no need for all the suffering and long term effects if you are healthy."
You might want to reconsider that.
Dr. Stacey Sensor says her 18-year-old son, a high school senior, is “one of the healthiest people I know.”
“He works out every single day at five o’clock in the morning,” said Sensor, a Gaylord physician. “He takes all these supplements. He only eats healthy. And he got COVID at the gym.
“He was quite sick for about eight days,” she said. “So I’m telling you that it doesn’t matter what supplements you take, what your age is. ... Even in the healthiest individual, they still can get it and they can still become very sick and then the effects can be there for quite some time.”
Last week Michigan was averaging more hospital admissions for COVID patients under 40 than patients age 80 or older. The former was about 78 a day compared to 50 for the latter, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
The biggest reason for the demographic shift, experts say: The difference in vaccination rates.
About 74% of Michigan residents age 70 and older have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, and two-thirds are fully vaccinated. For those 16 to 49, the numbers are 36% who have gotten one dose and 23% fully immunized; there is no vaccine authorized for children under 16.
Also contributing to the surge of virus among young people is the spread of variants that are both more contagious and more lethal; the tendency of many younger adults to disregard COVID-19 guidelines, and the fact that schools have reopened.
You might want to reconsider that.
Dr. Stacey Sensor says her 18-year-old son, a high school senior, is “one of the healthiest people I know.”
“He works out every single day at five o’clock in the morning,” said Sensor, a Gaylord physician. “He takes all these supplements. He only eats healthy. And he got COVID at the gym.
“He was quite sick for about eight days,” she said. “So I’m telling you that it doesn’t matter what supplements you take, what your age is. ... Even in the healthiest individual, they still can get it and they can still become very sick and then the effects can be there for quite some time.”
Last week Michigan was averaging more hospital admissions for COVID patients under 40 than patients age 80 or older. The former was about 78 a day compared to 50 for the latter, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
The biggest reason for the demographic shift, experts say: The difference in vaccination rates.
About 74% of Michigan residents age 70 and older have gotten at least one dose of vaccine, and two-thirds are fully vaccinated. For those 16 to 49, the numbers are 36% who have gotten one dose and 23% fully immunized; there is no vaccine authorized for children under 16.
Also contributing to the surge of virus among young people is the spread of variants that are both more contagious and more lethal; the tendency of many younger adults to disregard COVID-19 guidelines, and the fact that schools have reopened.
