'Millennials are not immune to this': Kylie Jenner, 22, tells her 166 million followers that many coronavirus sufferers are young - and to stay home and do PUZZLES after Surgeon General asked her to intervene
- Surgeon General Jerome Adams asked Kylie Jenner to stress to millennials the importance of staying home to stop the spreading of COVID-19
- Jenner then took to Instagram Stories to tell her 166million followers to stay indoors
- Star said she had been reading and doing puzzles amid the coronavirus crisis, and hadn't left the house in nine days
- She also referenced new data which shows that coronavirus is not just harming the older generation but is gravely sickening the young
- Of the first 2,500 cases in America, 29 percent of patients are aged 20-44 and 20% are in the hospital; 12% in ICU
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Kylie Jenner has urged her 166 million Instagram followers to stay home, just hours after Surgeon General Jerome Adams asked the reality star to use her influence in the fight against coronavirus.
Speaking on Good Morning America Thursday, Adams said the country needed social media influencers like Jenner to use their platforms to get through to young people who are not all heeding government advice to stay inside and stem the spread of COVID-19.
On Thursday afternoon, Jenner, 22, shared a video to her Instagram Stories, saying that she had heard Adams' appeal.
'I listened to the Surgeon General this morning, and even though I've already been doing my daily reminders [to practice social distancing], he definitely encouraged me to come on here and talk to you guys,' the star stated in her video.
'Coronavirus is a real thing!'
Jenner continued: 'Please stay inside, practice social distancing, self quarantine, If you live with your parents, you don't want to go home and get your parents sick. You might have it and not even know and be affecting other people.
'It's serious and the only way to slow this down is if we do this, because there's not a cure right now.'
Surgeon General Jerome Adams has pleaded with stars like Kylie Jenner to use their vast social media platforms to tell young people to stay at home and quarantine to fight the spread of coronavirus
The mother-of-one then referenced new research which shows 29 percent of the first 2,500 cases of coronavirus in the US were people between the ages of 20 and 44.
'No one is immune to this, millennials are not immune to this,' Jenner implored, as she looked directly into the camera.
'New evidence actually shows that a large percentage of people in the hospital right now are young adults'.
Jenner went on to reveal she is used to staying indoors, and spent much of her pregnancy at home in a bid to avoid the paparazzi.
'I watched movies, I read books, I would do full spa days and take long baths, ' she recalled.
The star also revealed that she completed many puzzles whilst she was pregnant, and has now taken up the practice once again.
'Staying at home is fun guys! Tweet me what you've been doing,' Jenner concluded in her video.
The number of coronavirus cases in the US has dramatically increased in the last two weeks
'Staying at home is fun guys! Tweet me what you've been doing': Jenner urged her 166 million followers to stay indoors
The Surgeon general's plea to Jenner came after disturbing photographs and videos emerged of teenagers and young adults flocking to the beaches of Florida for Spring Break, gathering in groups and twerking despite the entire world being on the brink of shut-down and thousands dying with no cure on the horizon.
Startling new data released on Wednesday night shows 29 percent of the first 2,500 cases of coronavirus in the US were people between the ages of 20 and 44. Of that number, 20 percent were hospitalized and 12 percent needed to be put in intensive care units. An enormous 55 percent of the cases were all under the age of 65.
That frightening data goes against the previously held notion many young people relied on to not worry about the virus - that they were immune to it and that it only seriously affected the old and sickly.
Dr. Adams, making an impassioned plea on Thursday, said: 'I have a 15 and 14 year old and the more I tell them not to do something, the more they want to do it.
'What I really think we need to do was get our influencers - Kevin Durant, Donavan Mitchell, we need to get Kylie Jenner and social media influencers out there, in helping folks understand: this is serious - people are dying out there.
'We have data emerging from Italy that suggests young people may be at higher risk than we previously thought. But think about your grandfather, the fact you're spreading disease that could ultimately be what kills them,' he said.
The Surgeon General said on Thursday that America is trying to avoid becoming Italy, where the 'worst case scenario' is playing out with the entire country now in its 10th day of lockdown.
Dr. Adams, making an impassioned plea on Thursday, said: 'I have a 15 and 14 year old and the more I tell them not to do something, the more they want to do it'
Hospitals are bursting at the seams with patients and the death toll - now more than 2,000 - keeps increasing.
Harrowing video footage of army trucks transporting the bodies of the dead out of one town is putting into stark reality how lethal the virus us.
The United States is only around 11 days behind Italy in the growth of new cases and officials are desperate to avoid a similar scenario unfolding here.
There are increasing calls for President Trump to issue a national shut down but he is resisting at all costs in order to keep the few businesses open that can remain open, and allow people to feed themselves.
Now, the government is telling everyone to stay at home for 15 days, fervently wash their hands and avoid coming into contact with anyone who may be susceptible to the virus.
Dr. Adams told the entire nation to presume they have the virus - and handle others as if they do too.
'In America, most of our authority lies at the state level.
'Some states have been really aggressive, some not so much - that's why the president put out the guidelines earlier this week - to say look America, everyone needs to hold off non-essential travel.
'Everyone needs to stay home from work if they can. Everyone has to be in gatherings of 10 or less.
'If we all do that, across the country, then we can have our trajectory like China.
'Good news out of China last night - no new reported domestic cases,' Dr. Adams said on Thursday.
'Every model you have has a best case scenario and worst case scenario. Italy looks like the worst case scenario. That's why we are ringing the alarm.
'That's why we are telling America to take this seriously but we have a better case scenario. China is reassuring.
'China shows us that if we do this, then in six to eight weeks we will hit our peak and start to come back down again
BEING YOUNG WON'T SAVE YOU
Younger American adults are also at risk of becoming seriously ill because of the novel coronavirus, a new report reveals.
Although those who are oldest, aged 80 and above, have the greatest risk of dying, a sizeable portion of those hospitalized were younger, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Among 508 patients known to have been hospitalized between February 12 and March 16, 38 percent were between ages 20 and 54.
And roughly 47 percent of 121 patients taken to intensive care units were under age age 65, the CDC found.
But older people were far more likely to die from the disease once in hospital - with almost three quarters of deaths occurring in those aged over 65.
Researchers found that 20 percent of those hospitalized and 12 percent of those in intensive care were ages 20 to 44, essentially the millennial generation.
'I think everyone should be paying attention to this,' Dr Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, who was not involved in the report, told The New York Times.
'It's not just going to be the elderly. There will be people age 20 and up. They do have to be careful, even if they think that they're young and healthy.'
The research contradicts the notion that younger people are not at risk from serious coronavirus infections, though it supports the conclusion that older people are most at risk from fatal complications.
Of the 44 people who deaths were discussed in the report, 20 were between ages 65 to 84 and 12 were aged 85 or older.
Nine deaths among adults age 20 to 64 and none were reported in those aged 19 or younger.
President Donald Trump's messaging has shifted in recent days, from comparing the virus to the seasonal flu to telling young people that they're not 'invincible.'
'We don't want [young people] gathering, and I see they do gather, including on beaches, including in restaurants,' he said during Wednesday's White House briefing.
'They're feeling invincible...but they don't realize that they can be carrying lots of bad things home to grandmother and grandfather and even their parents. So we want them to heed the advice. We mean the advice. And I think it's getting through.'
At the same briefing, Dr Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said she is worried about young people becoming seriously ill.
'There are concerning reports coming out of France and Italy about some young people getting seriously ill in ICUs,' she said.
'We think part of this is people heeded the early data coming out of China and coming out of South Korea that the elderly or those with preexisting medical conditions were at particular risk.
'It may have been that the millennial generation, our largest generation, our future generation that will carry us through for the next multiple decades, there may be disproportional infections among that group.'
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