Why we’re seeing some severe COVID-19 cases among younger people

Photo by Sergei Bobylev\TASS via Getty Images COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been much deadlier in older people — but more anecdotes are popping up of young, healthy people getting critically ill and even dying of the disease.
What do these cases tell us about the disease?
Two 29-year-old health care workers became seriously ill in Wuhan — only one survived, a report in The New York Times detailed. Other stories about people under 50 coming down with seri