The Difficulties in Determing How Many Times Will the Average Person Get COVID

How Many Times Will the Average Person Get COVID? Because the CDC is no longer tracking COVID cases, it’s hard to determine exactly how many people are getting sick, and how often. People with compromised immune systems may contract the virus more frequently. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus has entered its endemic stage, people are still contracting COVID, and new strains, including EG.5, continue to keep physicians and scientists on alert. Yahoo Life

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According to Linda Yancey, MD, infectious diseases specialist at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Texas, there is no data to establish an average number of infections per person, and there likely won’t be in the future due to the lack of standardized testing.

“This is the downside of at-home testing. On the one hand, it is so much easier for people to test themselves, so we are almost certainly getting more testing done overall,” Yancey told Verywell via email. “But we no longer have good numbers of how many people are being tested and what those results are.”

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