Why Doesn't the CDC Acknowledge the Massive Number of Americans with "Natural Immunity" as Demonstrated by Its Own Data?

The Centers for Disease Control quietly updated its numbers to show nearly 150 million people had prior infections and survived. But the number could be even higher.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly acknowledged that far more people have natural immunity than earlier reported. The CDC has updated its "estimated Covid-19 burden" to acknowledge more than 146.6 million people have been infected by the Sars-CoV-2 virus and have survived it.

The CDC updated its May figures in October after declining to update the numbers for five months. These numbers are the latest provided by the CDC as of November 16.

The CDC estimates that 124 million of the 146.6 million infections resulted in "symptomatic illnesses," although it is unclear why only one in four infections sought out medical treatment. The CDC further estimated that there were 7.5 million hospitalizations, although 'hospitalizations' may include routine treatment that happened to turn up a positive Covid-19 test, greatly inflating the figures.

Most inflated of all are the 921,000 "estimated total deaths."