COVID-19 spike among young in Mass. raising fresh alarms

BOSTON — Confirmed COVID-19 infections among Massachusetts residents younger than 20 are higher than they have been through the entire pandemic, prompting one leading expert to say the rising caseload is likely a reflection of increased testing and another to warn it could forecast a wave of transmission in older adults.

While some communities are backing away from in-person learning amid a statewide increase in cases, the infection rate among the state's youngest age group has grown more rapidly in the past two months than any other cohort. Officials have been consistently pointing to unsafe behavior among young adults as driving a significant portion of the uptick...

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