An expert in psychology believes the sudden rise in COVID-19 cases among young people in Canada is not surprising -- and ultimately comes down to their need to build social networks.
For the past two days, health officials in Ontario have announced that more than 50 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases in the province are among people under 40 years of age. In total, the province announced 368 new cases of COVID-19 since Tuesday.
“If we have months of being at home, we are craving some social interactions with other people,” he said. “This is especially true of young people for whom they’re in the stage of their life where building the social networks they will rely on for their entire life and it is really where their mind if often focused.”
“We all want these social interactions as well, but we think: ‘Oh, well let’s just wait a little longer before we go a little too crazy with this and let’s get the rate of disease lower,’” he said.
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