Nearly 60% of US population had Covid by February

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A new survey estimates that nearly 60 percent of the US population had had Covid-19 by February 2022

By February of this year, 58 percent of the US population -- more than 190 million people -- had been infected with Covid, according to an antibody survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Tuesday.

Roughly 75 percent of people under 18 had been infected, according to a paper based on a nationally representative study of antibody levels.