The World Health Organization (WHO) top official in Europe recently warned that the coronavirus is a "long-tailed tornado" and that an increase in the number of cases among young people could spread the disease en masse to older people and cause increased deaths.
Dr. Hans Kluge said young people are likely to be in closer contact with the elderly as the weather cools in Europe, increasing the chance of Covid-19 spreading to the most vulnerable.
"We do not want to make unnecessary predictions, but this is definitely one of the options - that at some point there will be more hospitalizations and an increase in mortality," he said from Copenhagen, the WHO headquarters in Europe.
He insisted that "no one is invincible", but added that most coronavirus deaths are among the elderly.
"Really a lot of young people will not necessarily die from it, but it is a tornado with a long tail and it is a disease that affects many organs."
Kluge said autumn presents a "complicated situation" due to the reopening of schools, the start of the flu season and rising mortality among older people in the winter months in general. He added that school facilities have not been the main contributor to the epidemic, but the spread of the disease occurs more often in social gatherings than in schools.
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Sources: Euronews, Guardian
