Wastewater-derived estimates suggest that 74 million people in the U.S. got infected during the summer wave.

That's 21.6% of the population, about 1 in 5 people. These infections are anticipated to translate into 3.7-14.7 million long-term conditions. #LongCOVID

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Graph titled "SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)" which has days on the X-axis (with ticks for the first of each month for July through November 2025) and infections on the Y-axis. The graph highlights a peak of 1.4 million infections/day in early September. Additionally, it shows that 60 million infections occurred in the two-month span from early August to early October, and 75 million infections occurred in the three-month span from mid-July to mid-October. The graph is attributed to Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA (@michael_hoerger ) and links to pmc19.com/data

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

            
              Because we sacrificed the most vulnerable to the line, en masse.
Undercounting. Covid is just being flat out ignored in many cases. It's not just the lack of masking, many places don't even bother to test anymore.

[–] da_gay_pussy_eatah@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

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