CDC underestimated the epidemic! The actual number of people infected with the new crown in the United States is threatened to double to 200 million, accounting for 2/3 of the total population

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With the decreasing rate of severe illness and death after the mutation, the new coronavirus is no longer the biggest “heart attack” since the second half of this year. However, there is no denying that the virus has caused an epic disaster around the world.

In the case of the United States, as of Tuesday, more than 100 million confirmed cases have been officially recorded, slightly less than a third of the total U.S. population, according to the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, some scientists say the actual number of people infected with the virus in the U.S. could be more than twice that number (i.e., 200 million cases).

Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director who served during the Obama administration, estimates that the reported figure is less than half the actual total because it does not count the number of newly crowned patients who are asymptomatic, never tested or tested at home but not reported.

“There are at least 200 million infections in the United States, so this is only a small fraction of that. The real question is whether we will be better prepared for new crown infections and other health threats.” He said.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the New Coronavirus has ravaged the world like a “flooding beast. As the virus continues to evolve more infectious variants that can evade vaccination and immunity to prior infections, transmission remains difficult to control as we enter the fourth year of the pandemic.

It’s really hard to stop this virus, and that’s one of the reasons we’re shifting our focus to hospitalizations and deaths, rather than just counting cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health.

However, the U.S. has made significant progress since the darkest days of the epidemic. Deaths are down about 90 percent from the peak of the pandemic in January 2021, when more than 3,000 people a day died from the virus before mass vaccination. And during the subsequent surge of omicron, the number of daily hospitalizations also dropped 77 percent from its peak of more than 21,000 in January 2022.

But despite this progress, the power of the virus cannot be underestimated, and deaths and hospitalizations remain high – about 400 people still die from the virus and about 5,000 are admitted to hospitals each day. Since the outbreak, more than 1 million people have died from New Coronavirus in the United States, more than in any other country in the world.

“I think people are getting used to this,” Frieden said, “and New Crown infection is a new bad thing in our environment, and it’s likely to be around for a long time. We don’t know how this will evolve and whether it will become less virulent or more virulent.”