# Why are some people not affected by the virus, yet, including me?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [August 23, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-people-not-affected-by-the-virus-yet-including-me/918832 "2020-08-23T17:40:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-people-not-affected-by-the-virus-yet-including-me/918832/5 "2020-08-23T22:37:22Z")

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As per [Snowboarder\_Bo’s daily posts in the Breaking News thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-breaking-news/847758/4374) on the COVID-19 numbers, as of yesterday, there were 5,841,428 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. 5.8 million is a lot of people, but that’s still only 1.8% of the U.S. population.

So, unless you live in an area that’s been hard-hit (e.g., New York City, portions of Florida, Arizona, and California, etc.), or you have a lot of interaction with elderly and other at-risk people, odds are pretty high that you still wouldn’t know many people who’ve definitively had the virus.

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