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CDC study: It's possible that only 1 in 8 US infections have been counted


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Only about 1 in 8 -- or 13% -- of all coronavirus infections in the United States were recognized and reported through the end of September, a new modeling study suggests.
That estimate, made by researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would mean that as many as 53 million people in the United States could have been infected from February through September.
During that same period, around 7 million confirmed cases of symptomatic Covid-19 were reported nationally, the researchers said.
As of Thursday, health authorities have identified more than 12.7 million Covid-19 cases total in the United States so far, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"We estimated that in the US through September 30, 2020, there were approximately 53 million total SARS-CoV-2 infections, including 42 million symptomatic illnesses and 2.4 million hospitalizations, with large variations by age group and geographic area," the CDC researchers wrote in the study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on Wednesday.
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