Referring to recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CNBC writes that almost sixty percent of the Americans have antibodies from the previous Covid-19 infection “demonstrating how widespread the virus was during the winter omicron surge”.

“The proportion of people with natural Covid antibodies increased substantially from about 34% of the population in December to about 58% in February during the unprecedent wave of infection driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. The CDC’s analysis didn’t factor in people who had antibodies from vaccination.”

The 65 year and older population, who had the highest rate of vaccination had around 33% had antibodies, roughly 64% adults ages 18 to 49, and 75% of the children and teenagers had antibodies from previous infection, CNBC writes.

• Most Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, the CDC reports
• At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous Covid infection, CDC says

Dr. Kristie Clarke from the CDC told to reporters that “so many people caught omicron over the winter that almost 60% of everyone in the U.S. now have antibodies to the virus in their blood”.

Clarke reported added “the finding means many people have at least some immunity to the virus. But CDC officials stressed that people should still get vaccinated, because vaccination provides the strongest, broadest protection against getting seriously ill. Immunity provided by previous infection may or may not be as protective against severe disease.”