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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[–] triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[..] excess deaths. That’s the level of mortality above what it was before the pandemic. This metric has not returned to normal and remains significantly elevated […] 120,000 unanticipated dead people per year [in the US]. That’s roughly the equivalent of two fully loaded standard commercial jets crashing and killing everyone aboard every day.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

And that's 2% on top of the millions of premature deaths that are now missing from present day stats. I know I'm a broken record on this stuff, but if for no reason you randomly killed off a million of your most medically vulnerable people, your excess deaths should running in the negatives for years.