How the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Come to Define the Millennial Generation

As the scale and nature of the COVID-19 pandemic becomes clear, 30- and 40-somethings have urged their 60- and 70-something parents to take more serious precautions. Fifty-something parents are remarking to their 20-something children that this is the most significant disruption of day-to-day living to occur in their lifetimes, while offering the reassurance that the virus poses its least threat to the young. But is that true?

While the Wuhan coronavirus is a greater existential threat to boomers than to Millennials, it isn’t always true that that which does not...