Why do the minority who haven’t had Covid account for most new infections?
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#61PKH)
About 15% of people in England have somehow never had Covid, yet 55% of new cases are from this group
Having somehow dodged Covid since the pandemic kicked off, the proportion of people who have never seen the red line appear on a rapid test are a steadily shrinking minority.
On Thursday, the White House announced that the US president, Joe Biden, had tested positive for Covid, becoming the most high-profile figure yet to join the increasingly exclusive club of people who are only now, in the third year of rife disease, notching up their first infection.
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