However, the young people who are dying are not necessarily those who got sick at a party. Among the young who succumbed to the coronavirus recently in Florida were a 26-year-old convenience store clerk and a 42-year-old restaurant cook. At least three of the people who died worked in residential facilities caring for the ill and disabled; one of them was 41 and two were 31. Records also show the people who died from the virus in Florida among the young were disproportionately Black. Black Floridians over 65 are dying at twice the rate of white residents, but among younger adults, the death rate is nearly three times as high.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2020 14:59 UTC