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by morsch 1682 days ago
I wasn't the one who brought up age brackets, you were ("infected 50 year olds"). But here's the calculation for the entire US population.

Total number infected until early November 2021: ~37 million [1]

Total population of the US: ~329 million

Infection percentage so far in pandemic: 11.2%

"Chance of infection" (per annum): ~7%

See above why this is an absurd extrapolation that nobody with any brains would take seriously. In the long run, pretty much everybody will get Sars-Cov-2. It's an endemic disease.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254271/us-total-number-... per your source, NYT and Our World in Data refer to 47 million cases