"Younger people may feel more confident about their ability to withstand a virus like this. [But] if that many younger people are being hospitalized, that means that there are a lot of young people in the community that are walking around with the infection."

Dr. Christopher Carlsten, head of respiratory medicine at the University of British Columbia, in an interview this week with The New York Times, for its report, "Younger Adults Make Up Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S."