Between 5 and 8 % of the u.s. population has been infected with the coronavirus causing the Covid-19, said Thursday the director of the Centres for prevention and disease control (CDC), Robert Redfield, who insists that the pandemic is far from being eradicated in the country.
" Between 5, 6, 7, or 8 % of Americans have had an infection, whether they know it or not ", more than 20 million people, and of the order of ten times more than the number of documented cases (2.4 million), " said Robert Redfield during a conference call with journalists.