The results indicate that in vast swaths of the country, the coronavirus still has touched only a small fraction of the population. In Utah, for example, just over one percent of people had been exposed to the virus by early June. In some regions, the gap between estimated infections and reported cases decreased as testing capacity and reporting improved. New York City, for example, showed a 12-fold difference between actual infections and the reported rate in early April, and a 10-fold difference in early May. Numbers for both regions are likely to be much higher in the next round of analyses because of the surge of infections in those regions since those dates.

Source: New York Times July 21, 2020 15:11 UTC