The month of January 2022 has witnessed the fastest rise in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. At its peak a year ago, the weekly increase in new cases had reached 1.75 million. The peak earlier this January had reached 5.6 million. Nevertheless, based on the most recent government data, as of January 24 only about three Americans in a hundred could conceivably transmit Covid-19 to someone. In other words, an estimated 97.0 percent of people in the United States pose no threat to anyone of spreading the virus.
Even with such a rapid influx of new cases, nearly 85 percent of total cases are recovered, meaning not only that those people are no longer threats, but also that they now have the strongest form of immunity against Covid-19.