Which Whatcom age groups are being impacted by COVID the most this summer?

Nearly two in five of Whatcom County’s new COVID-19 cases identified during the fifth month of the pandemic were diagnosed in residents between the ages of 20 and 39, The Bellingham Herald learned by analyzing data released by Whatcom Unified Command.

Residents in the 0-19 and 40-59 age groups each represented nearly another quarter of the 322 cases reported between July 10 and Aug. 10, according to the data released in Unified Command’s daily situation reports.

That means that residents 60 and older accounted for only 12.8% of all new cases between July 10 and Aug. 10.