Fauci: Younger generation is driving the new surge of coronavirus in U.S.

Anthony Fauci, top U.S. infectious disease expert, on Thursday said the younger generation in the U.S. is driving the new surge of coronavirus and warned young people should not feel like they are immune to serious infection.

"You look at what's going on with the new infections – the age range of the infection. The median age is about a decade and a half younger today than it was a few months ago", CNN reported, citing Dr. Fauci.

"Young people are intimately and heavily involved in what's going on now with this pandemic", Fauci noted.

As of Thursday evening, the U.S. has recorded more than 3.56 millions cases of COVID-19 with 138,201 deaths nationwide, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. 

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