News Item – Western Canada: Death of an Alberta man in his 30s underscores that young people are not immune from COVID-19

In Alberta, 11 of the province’s 49 hospitalizations – or about 22 per cent – were under 44, though that demographic has only had one ICU admission and one death.

Dionne Aleman, a mechanical and industrial engineering professor and CHE affiliate at the University of Toronto, says those statistics should not provide much comfort for younger Canadians.

“It is like rolling a die. It might be unlikely that if I roll the die that the number one pops up, but that doesn’t mean that it is never going to happen.”

Full article at: Globe and Mail