Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut have all tested positive. Outbreaks at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University are bringing back mask requirements to those campuses as officials seek out quarantine space.The known infections likely reveal only the tip of the iceberg — with actors and politicians regularly tested at work.
Official case figures are certain to be vast undercounts of how widely the virus is circulating because of home testing and mildly sick not bothering to test at all.Cabinet members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut have all tested positive COVID-19.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Across the nation, mask-wearing is at its lowest level since April 2020, said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
For every 100 infections, only seven are recorded in official tallies, according to his modeling group's latest estimate. That means a place like New York City that’s averaging 1,600 cases a day has a dramatically higher true number of infections.Mokdad expects the high level of U.S.
immunity built up from previous infections and vaccinations will protect the nation from a large surge."We’re going to have some infections here and there, but it's not going to shut down the country," Mokdad said. "Life has to go on.