The states of California and Texas have both reached over 1 million cases of positive COVID individuals. This means that over one million people have already been tested for COVID and tested positive. Asymptomatic or not, the positive results imply that, in a region with over 39 million individuals (California) and 29 million individuals (Texas) most people are testing positive. As a result of this, the chances that the vast majority of the population has already been exposed to the virus is very likely.
These testing results can be utilized as a measure of how many people have already been infected in the case of a small group of individuals, when trying to prevent a spread from occurring. However, once a certain margin has passed, it becomes futile to prevent the spread, as it has already transpired throughout the population, especially in densely populated areas such as California and Texas.
As the vast majority of the population becomes exposed in the United States, the chances of the human body developing immunity and being able to fight of the virus without the presence of a vaccine, or recovery treatment, increases. At this point it appears that the vast majority of the population has developed that capability to fight of the viral infection on its own, without a significant cost to the immune system for this viral cycle.
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