A new study suggests that as many as 8.7 million Americans came down with coronavirus in March, but more than 80% of them were never diagnosed.
A team of researchers looked at the number of people who went to doctors or clinics with influenza-like illnesses that were never diagnosed as coronavirus, influenza or any of the other viruses that usually circulate in winter.There was a giant spike in these cases in March, the researchers reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine."The findings support a scenario where more than 8.7 million new SARS-CoV-2 infections appeared in the U.S.
Cases fell after that."We saw this huge peak that ended on March 22 in most places," Silverman told CNN. Cases have been on the decline since then, he said -- but the data the team is collecting does not include the past two weeks.The team is now working to try to get closer to real-time surveillance of the pandemic. The data from the CDC comes in about two weeks after people make their doctor visits.
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