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 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And as conservative as those numbers are, let's not forget that people are still seeing cognitive slowing without clocking any of the symptoms that indicate Long Covid.

And this was years ago. The average person is like 5 infections deep at this point, minimum.