140 million Americans have had coronavirus, CDC estimates

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

About 140 million Americans have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus through the end of January, according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The percentage of individuals who have antibodies to COVID-19, known as seroprevalence, is 43.3 percent for the total U.S. population, the CDC study found, much higher than regularly cited infection rates.

The data for the study was collected from late December to late January and relied on tests of nearly 72,000 samples.

The percentage of those with antibodies to the virus was lower in older age groups, with children having a seroprevalence of about 58 percent compared to 23 percent for those over the age of 65, the study found.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/140-million-americans-have-had-coronavirus-cdc-estimates/ar-AAUttUH

[JohnSJ]

1. How many of those people had been vaccinated? That would produce antiboidies also

[Botany]

2. When is somebody going to hold Trump accountable for this nightmare?

Feb. 26, 2020 Trump, “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Omicron was everywhere

It burned through this whole country quickly.

Children getting it more than those over 65 is basically proves the vaccines worked splendidly. So 43.3% have gotten it, 2/3s are vaccinated. That means around 80% of the population has some level of immunity to Covid. This immunity can wane over time, but it won't wane all the way unless new variants are highly different.

There's a group not mentioned here, those that got Covid and their bodies fought it off with inflammation and fever so they didn't produce antibodies. But they presumably don't have immunity.

[haele]

4. What percentage of them have Long COVID?

Laz has it. It's been doing weird neurological and immune system things to him for the past two years. He basically spent a year and a half of his life on auto-pilot - starting mid February of 2020 to late November 2021 - and he only has flashes of memories from that period.
We finally got his siezures and brain fog under control with medication Now he has to work on recovering his memory; we're using TBI recovery techniques I got from a VA councilor I contacted when we figured out what was going on.

We're lucky we have good insurance, finally found a good neurologist, and his organs weren't affected. A lot of other people won't be so lucky, and my sister in law who works for a disability lawyer worries that this country is just not ready for the number of long COVID cases that are going to need to go on SSDI to survive.

Especially since it's difficult to diagnose long COVID.

Haele