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96.4% of Americans had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood by fall 2022

  • Written by Matt Hitchings, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Florida
imageInfection and vaccination both leave their mark in your blood.Yulia Reznikov/Moment via Getty ImagesimageCC BY-ND

Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in the blood of 96.4% of Americans over the age of 16 by September 2022. That’s according to a serosurvey – an analysis testing for the presence of these...

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