U.S. Surpasses 25 Million Covid-19 Infections

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The U.S. passed another milestone in the year-long struggle against Covid-19, as total infections exceeded 25 million, or about 8% of the population, according to data reported Sunday by Johns Hopkins University.

On Saturday, the nation added 172,878 cases, figures compiled by Johns Hopkins and Bloomberg show. While daily case counts have declined after spiking to records of almost 300,000 after the Christmas holiday, the weekly average of about 175,000 new infections every day remains high.

The U.S. death toll surpassed 417,000 as another 3,390 people died of Covid-19 nationwide.

President Joe Biden, who has detailed the first national strategy against Covid-19, warned that deaths may reach 600,000 before vaccines begin to create immunity on a large scale. Experts say that 25 million infections is almost certainly an undercount, as many people are asymptomatic or untested.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-24/u-s-surpasses-25-million-covid-19-infections?srnd=premium

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1. the actual infections are likely still 3x bigger

than the measured rate... and the actual death toll is probably 500,000 now.

when we started a year ago... the measured infection rate was thought to be 1/10th of the actual rate... meaning that our testing is getting better.