The number of coronavirus infections is growing among younger adults across the country and in Milwaukee County, according to health officials.
In March, the average age of infections was 52 and in June it was lowered to 36, according to Dr. Ben Weston, Milwaukee County's Emergency Management Medical Director.
Dr. Weston called the trend concerning and expects that it will continue.
"As you start seeing an increasing trend in younger people that will eventually expand out to older and other sicker populations. And then we'll see that spike in hospitalizations and death," said Dr. Weston.
Typically, COVID-19 is not as severe in young people but that is not always the case.
"The youngest death, we've had in Milwaukee County was somebody in their 20s. We've had several people in their 20s who have died," said Dr. Weston.
On Marquette's campus, we met students playing it safe and wearing face masks.
"I have multiple friends that are immunocompromised so it could be a lot worse by end up giving it to them or just a random person on the street," said Sean Lessila.
"It’s kind of like what are you gonna look back at 20...30 years from now and say what did I do during that? We’ve definitely talked about that a lot and try to be better," said Maggie Burke.
While Wisconsin's numbers are not as bad as many other states, seeing crowds where social distancing and face masks are non-existent Dr. Weston believes the numbers will catch up with us.
"Having things like people in close contact people not wearing masks, that's only going to make us get there and get worse faster," said Dr. Weston.
