While the data is on the side of the healthier young people, there is no immune section of society from the coronavirus, according to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci.
"Younger people should be concerned for two reasons," Fauci told CNN's "State of the Union." "You are not immune or safe from getting seriously ill."
Fauci expressed concern the reports the elderly and people with underlying health conditions are more vulnerable to giving young people a false sense of security.
"I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction that we see in restaurants and in bars," Fauci said. "Whatever it takes to do that, that's what I would like to see."
He added the virus "isn't a mathematical formula" and it does not care how old you are.
"There are people that are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill," he said.
Also, while the young might not get the most serious illnesses, they still can carry it and pass it on to someone most vulnerable to it.
"You can bring it to a person, who can bring it to person, who can bring it to your grandmother or grandfather or elderly relative, that's why everything's got to take this seriously – even the young," Fauci concluded.
Fauci, 79, said he has no symptoms and no need to take a coronavirus test, despite being well-traveled in the city of Washington and around a number of media members and government officials.
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