Dead pixels appeared on my retina display. Can it be repaired?

My MacBook Pro Retina is a little over 10 months old, and recently, two areas of dead pixels have shown up on the screen. I have no idea what made them appear, as I baby this machine much more than my prior original MacBook Pro (7 mostly problem-free years!). The one spot is a bright white when the screen is black, and the other is a smaller gray dot.
I've tried to keep this machine as like-new as I can, and it doesn't go a day without getting a wipe-down from a micro-fiber cloth. I keep it in an external shell, and it is never touched by by my kids. Still, I somehow got these two areas of the screen that do not turn black.
Is it possible to have the display repaired, or is this something I'm just stuck with? I always get AppleCare with my laptops (out of paranoid fear), but I can't tell if something like this is covered.
-- Len

nbar wrote:
I don't believe there is a minimum # of dead pixels, but mende1 knows better than I.
Before I got my first Mac and while I was looking for more information about Macs, some websites published an Apple's "secret" document about dead pixels, and that's what it said (Apple did not replace displays with a "small" number of dead pixels even if it was in warranty, and some users have had this experience).
As I told you, this may not be true and the display gets replaced, and also we do not know if that applies to the MacBook Pro with Retina display, but if the Mac has got Apple Care the display should be replaced

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