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- CDC estimates that ~114 million Americans have been infected - Approximately 158 million Americans have been vaccinated If you generously assume no overlap

by runako 5y ago

- CDC estimates that ~114 million Americans have been infected - Approximately 158 million Americans have been vaccinated If you generously assume no overlap between these populations, that leaves ~56 million pristine hosts. Vax resistance is clustered geographically, so those 56 million are more likely to be near other unvaccinated people. 56 million is a lot of people. If you assume any meaningful number of people have been vaccinated after being infected, there could quite easily be 100 million or more latent hosts in the US. (Also vax effectiveness is not 100% so we expect some number of folks to contract the disease after being fully vaccinated.)

onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
If you got coronavirus, you can be reinfected, too - especially with the P.1 variant [1]. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909850/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909850/
- dragontamer 5y ago
  For the downvoters, this is Araraquara city study. A 2nd city adding to the case study first found in Manaus city. Even if you think that Manaus city's study was poorly done, the fact that this is a 2nd study in a 2nd city with similar results adds on to the evidence. The author list does not seem to match the Manaus city, aside from Ester C Sabino (who was 1st author in the Manaus study, but seems to be a much later author in this newer study). I'm assuming they got Sabino to discuss the other study in the context of this one.