Supporting Young Adults to Rise to the Challenge of COVID-19

“If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day I'm not going to let it stop me from partying,” declared Brady Sluder, a college student celebrating spring break in Miami. My social media feed has exploded with chastisements of young adults who are ignoring public health advice advocating for social distancing. In particular, I hear these concerns from my retired parents and older neighbors, who worry that their own health will be sacrificed because of the recklessness of young adults. As a physician specializing in adolescent and young adult medicine, I believe that young people are actually in the best position to weather this period of distant socializing because of their fluency with technology as core to their social networking and engagement.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - Category: Child Development Authors: Tags: Letter to the editor Source Type: research