<p>COVID-19 is an odd virus; if you catch it, it can kill you, or you might never even know you had it.</p>
<p>A new <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e3.htm?s_cid=mm7117e3_w">study</a> released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that a majority of Americans, both adults and children, have been infected with COVID-19.</p>
<p>Nearly 60% of adults and about 75% of children have coronavirus antibodies, indicating that they had been infected with COVID-19 and its variants, according to data collected from a study of blood samples across the country. That&#8217;s a huge rise from December 2021, when just 34% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies.</p>
<p>“As of February 2022, approximately 75% of children and adolescents had serologic evidence of previous infection with SARS-CoV-2, with approximately one third becoming newly seropositive since December 2021,” the report says.</p>
<p>But researchers aren&#8217;t sure how long those antibodies are effective in keeping people from catching the virus or one of its variants a second time.</p>
<p>&#8220;We still do not know how long infection-induced immunity will last, and we cannot know from the study, again, whether all people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies continue to have protection from their prior infection,&#8221; <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/26/health/covid-americans-cdc-study/index.html">said</a> Dr. Kristie Clarke, who led the study for the CDC.</p>
<p>The number of immune Americans is even higher when you throw in those who have been vaccinated.</p>
<p>One scientific model for COVID-19 cases released in February estimated that some 73% of Americans were currently immune to Omicron, according to a report.</p>
<p>“About half of eligible Americans have received booster shots, there have been nearly 80 million confirmed infections overall and many more infections have never been reported,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-united-states-3e7ab3f74080bac8480aa6de3e65ecce">according</a> to the Associated Press.</p>
<p>“We have changed,” Ali Mokdad, a professor at the University of Washington, told the wire service. “We have been exposed to this virus and we know how to deal with it.”</p>
<p>“‘I am optimistic even if we have a surge in summer, cases will go up, but hospitalizations and deaths will not,’ said Mokdad, who works on the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model, which calculated the 73% figure for The Associated Press,” the AP wrote.</p>
<p>But the once dreamed-about idea of “herd immunity” — when enough of a population has been exposed to a single virus and built up immunity, which eventually ends its spread — does not seem possible as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, keeps mutating into different variants. Omicron is the latest, but while it is more infectious, data shows that the strain is far less lethal.</p>
<p>The new numbers mean America is approaching &#8220;herd immunity,&#8221; even as some researchers say the virus is here to stay. Early on in the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. immunologist, put the number at 60% to 70%, but later started upping that number, saying in an <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/cnbc-transcript-dr-anthony-fauci-speaks-with-cnbcs-meg-tirrell-live-during-the-cnbc-healthy-returns-livestream-today.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview</a> with CNBC News that it would be “75, 80, 85 percent.”</p>
<p>But by May 2021, experts began saying we may never reach herd immunity. “Instead, they are coming to the conclusion that rather than making a long-promised exit, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate in the United States for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths but in much smaller numbers,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/reaching-herd-immunity-is-unlikely-in-the-u-s-experts-now-believe/">reported</a>.</p>
<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.</em></p>

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