Nearly everyone in the United States has some form of protection against COVID-19, according to a new study.
Some 96.4 percent of people aged 16 and older who donated blood had evidence of antibodies against COVID-19, researchers found.
The bloods were analyzed between July and September 2022.
The percentage of people with antibodies was up from 93.5 percent during January to March 2022 and from 68.4 in mid 2021.
People had antibodies from prior infection, vaccination, or both.
Approximately 26 percent of people had antibodies from only vaccination, 22.6 percent had antibodies from only infection, and 47.7 percent had antibodies from both, researchers found.
Infection-induced immunity was more common among the unvaccinated in the cohort….