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Montreal 16-year-old dies from COVID-19 complications
by CityNews staff
Posted Apr 7, 2021 1:59 pm EDT
MONTREAL – A 16-year-old has died of COVID-19 complications at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, becoming the virus’s youngest fatality in Quebec.
In a statement to CityNews, the hospital says that generally, a young person who dies of COVID-19 would have had significant comorbidities, which are often chronic or long-term conditions.
“It’s incredibly tragic. I think it speaks to the virus and its virulence. I think people think that if they’re young, they’re immune to it, that they’re safe from it, and that’s not the case,” said Pravital Baral, an epidemiologist at the John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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