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Newborn Is Youngest Person to Be Infected With Coronavirus; Why Young People Are Ditching Alcohol and ‘The Simpsons’ Predicts the Coronavirus Outbreak.
A baby born on February 2 in Wuhan, China is now the youngest person to contract the coronavirus. The mother tested positive for the virus before giving birth, and experts say the baby could have been infected inside the womb.
Zeng Lingkong, chief physician of Wuhan Children Hospital’s neonatal medicine department said to Reuters: “This reminds us to pay attention to mother-to-child being a possible route of coronavirus transmission.”
Stephen Morse, an epidemiologist at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, shared his own thoughts with Business Insider: “It’s quite possible that the baby picked it up very conventionally—by inhaling virus droplets that came from the mother coughing.”
The baby is in stable condition and under observation.
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The United Kingdom is seeing a spike in younger folk who abstain from alcohol and the hangovers that come with it. A report in the BMC Public Health Journal showed that people aged 16 to 24 who opted not to drink rose from 18 percent in 2005 to 29 percent in 2015.
During that same time period, binge drinking dropped from 27 percent to 18 percent. The demand for “mindful festivals” and sober clubbing groups is also rising.
Harry Jones, 22, said in an interview with LADbible that cutting back on booze totally changed his life.
“Not drinking actually made me realize that I had the skills to get out of hospitality and that I didn’t need to spend my life working those ridiculous shifts…I feel like I’m back on track with my life and definitely more on top of my mental health now.”
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Simpsons fans, you may or may not remember this: In 1993, there was an episode that focused on the “Osaka Flu” that spread through Springfield. Fans on Twitter are discussing the similarities between the Osaka flu and the coronavirus.
One person said, “Did the Simpsons really predict Kobe’s death and the coronavirus outbreak? Wtf this is crazy.”
Another tweeted, “The Simpsons are from the future. They have predicted everything that has happened to us. Like trump becoming pres, Kobe’s death and now the coronavirus. What’s next?! The world ending?”
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