Covid infection rate

Cambridge MA

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Some 53 million people in the U.S. likely had had Covid-19 by the end of September, according to a modeling estimate from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Roughly 6.9 million infections had been confirmed within that time period, suggesting that roughly one in every eight cases was identified. The CDC estimates are also in line with studies that have looked at blood samples for disease-fighting antibodies as a sign of a person’s past infection and arrived at similar conclusions: Many more people have had Covid-19 in the U.S. than have been reported, but the majority of people is still at risk. “This indicates that approximately 84% of the U.S. population has not yet been infected, and thus most of the country remains at risk, despite already high rates of hospitalization,” the authors wrote.