Although according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) they establish that just under a third of the total population suffered from the condition, some experts warn how the figure is unable to reflect those who are asymptomatic, or those whoP did not go to any health institution.

The former director of that entity during the Barack Obama administration (2009-2017), Dr. Tom Frieden, considers that the figure reflects less than half of the real total.

“There have been at least 200 million infections in the United States, so this is a small part of them. The question really is whether we will be better prepared for Covid-19 and other health threats in the future,” he said.

Even the CDC estimated at the end of the first quarter of this year that nearly 187 million people may have contracted the virus at least once as of February 2022, more than double the number of officially reported cases at that time.

Subsequently, they registered more than 21 million confirmed infections from March to December 21, which, added to their previous estimates, gives a minimum figure of more than 208 million infections since the start of the health contingency.

Deaths and hospitalizations from Covid-19 remain high in the nation, where about 400 people die each day from the virus and about 5,000 are admitted to the hospital each day, according to the CDC.

The pathogen is still circulating at what would have been considered a high level before the pandemic, with nearly 70,000 confirmed cases reported daily on average, a count likely undercounted due to home testing.

More than a million people have died in the United States from Covid-19 since the pandemic began, more than in any other country in the world, according to official figures.

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