In testimony Wednesday to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that 90% of Americans are still susceptible to the coronavirus.
Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) said that the British ambassador told him yesterday that, based on serology testing, 5-25% of the population of the UK had been exposed to the coronavirus. Alexander asked what percentage of Americans had been exposed.
Redfield stated that the CDC is in the process of conducting a study on that, but “preliminary results on the first round show that a majority of our nation, more than 90% of the population, remains susceptible.”
“It varies in different geographic parts from states that have less than 1% with evidence of previous infections, with some with 15, 20 and one as high as 24%,” Redfield added.
Watch the live hearing here: