The U.S. recorded more than 100 million formally diagnosed and reported Covid-19 cases this week, but the number of Americans who have actually had the virus since the beginning of the Pandemic is much higher.
Since the beginning of the Pandemic there have been more than 200 million infections in the U.S. As we go into the fourth year of the Pandemic, it's difficult to control the transmission of the virus because it's more transmissible than before.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US has recorded more than 100 million cases. The data isn't perfect and likely undercounts the number of infections It doesn't capture the number of Covid patients who weren't tested or didn't report it because they didn't test at all.
According to Dr. Tom Frieden, the reported data reflects less than half of the total.
There are at least 200 million infections in the US. Will we be better prepared for Covid and other health threats in the future?
More than 200 million people in the US caught Covid at least once, more than double the number of officially reported cases, according to the CDC. A survey of commercial lab data found that almost half of Americans had an anti- Covid response.
More than 21 million confirmed cases have been recorded by the CDC this year, but this is an underestimate because people who use rapid tests at home are not included.
There have been more than 21 million confirmed infections since the beginning of the year, giving a low-end estimate of more than 200 million infections since the beginning of the year.
The Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health decided to focus on hospitalizations and deaths because it was hard to stop the virus.
Since the beginning of the Pandemic, the US has made progress. The death toll from the Pandemic peaked in January 2021, with more than 3000 people succumbing to the virus every day. During the massive omicron surge, hospital admissions have plummeted from a peak of more than 21,000.
Deaths and hospitalizations are still high despite the availability of vaccines and treatments. 5000 people are admitted to the hospital every day and 400 are dying from the virus. The H1N1 virus is still circulating at a high level, with over 67,000 confirmed cases a day, a significant undercount due to testing at home.
More than a million people have died in the US from the Pandemic since it started.
People have gotten used to Covid's toll. It is likely thatvid will be here for the long term. We don't know how this will evolve, we don't know how long it will last, we don't know how bad it will be.
When Covid hospitalizations and deaths decline to a level similar to the burden from the flu, the US can consider the Pandemic over.
Two viruses are circulating at the same time. The flu killed 12,000 people from October through the first week of December.
Fauci said on the radio show that it was not over. It's not acceptable to have four hundred deaths a day. We want it to be a lot lower than that.
Almost all of the people who are dying from Covid aren't up to date on their shots, and almost all of the people who would benefit from Paxlovid aren't getting it.
He said that we should celebrate the tools we have, but that we are not doing a good job of getting them into people.
At this point in the Pandemic, people who are up to date on their vaccines and get treated when they have a breakthrough infection face almost no risk of dying from Covid, according to the White House Covid task force. Older Americans who are more vulnerable to severe illness should be boosted so they have more protection during the holidays.
There are still too many older Americans who don't have their immunity updated.
New Covid variant will pose the biggest threat to progress in the U.S.
The zero Covid policy was relaxed in response to widespread social unrest. Concerns have been raised that Covid now has even more room to grow.
immunity from vaccine or prior infections has waned off as the virus has continued to evolve into more transmissible versions of omicron.
The director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota believes that after three years of activity, all the immunity that we should have acquired should protect us. With waning immunity and the variant, we can't say that.
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