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Adults 20-49 are driving the spread of COVID-19 and vaccinating that group could be key to controlling the pace of infections, a new study suggests. Researchers at London's Imperial College estimated that at least 65% of new U.S. infections originate from people age 20-49.
"Targeting interventions – including transmission-blocking vaccines – to adults age 20-49 is an important consideration in halting resurgent epidemics and preventing COVID-19-attributable deaths," the study's authors say in the publication Science.