Covid-19 protection: CNN analysis indicates that 12% – and as many as a third – of the US population may currently have some protection against Covid-19

Covid-19 protection: CNN analysis indicates that 12% – and as many as a third – of the US population may currently have some protection against Covid-19

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About 6% of the U.S. population has been vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 20 million people have received at least one dose of the two-dose regimen – which according to the trial data may offer partial protection against the virus – and more than 3.8 million people have been fully vaccinated.
Studies show that people who recover from Covid-19 are largely immune to the virus for a period of time. About 25 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported to the CDC, representing about 8% of the population, with some protection against Covid-19.
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However, the CDC estimates that only a fraction of the total Covid-19 cases have been reported in the US. The latest estimates show that the total business stood at 83 million by December. Together with the approximately five million cases reported in January, approximately 88 million people – more than a quarter of the U.S. population – can actually be protected from Covid-19 after recovering from infection.

Experts say people who have already had Covid-19 should still get the vaccine. According to CNN’s chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay Gupta, is the immunity you get with contracting Covid-19 for a certain period of time.

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The CNN estimates of the current protection against Covid-19 do not take into account any possible overlap between individuals that could be counted in both the number of people vaccinated and those infected.

With at least one vaccine dose administered to about 6% of the population and possibly a quarter of the population immune to infection, as many as about 1 in 3 people in the US can currently be at least partially protected against Covid-19.

That said, trial data show that one dose of vaccine provides only partial coverage. And while some studies have found that immunity to Covid-19 can last for years after infection, others have found that it can decline after just five months.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a boost to the vaccine stock allocated to states and promised that he would have enough doses to vaccinate at least 300 million people by late summer or early fall.

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