Youth movementYounger Adults Are Increasingly Testing Positive for The Coronavirus

Published 20 June 2020

As much of the country presses forward with reopening, a growing number of cities and states are finding that the coronavirus outbreak now has a foothold in a younger slice of the population, with people in their 20s and 30s accounting for a larger share of new coronavirus infections. Will Stone writes for NPR that the demographic shift has emerged in regions with different populations and political approaches to the pandemic – from Washington state and California to Florida and Texas. North CarolinaSouth CarolinaArizonaWisconsin and Colorado also all report clusters that have a larger proportion of young adults than they had previously seen.