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by jcranmer 1741 days ago
The actual case counts for the US appear to be about 40 million right now, not 100 million.

I also wonder how many people who claim to have natural immunity actually have that natural immunity. The tale of Manaus is cautionary here.
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nradov 1741 days ago
Case counts are meaningless because most infections were never tested. The CDC estimates that 120M Americans have been infected as of July 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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s1artibartfast 1741 days ago
The official CDC estimate is 100 million plus, based one estimated unreported cases and serology testing.
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