CCP Virus May Have Infected 10 Times More Americans Than Known: CDC

As many as 20 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus, a figure nearly 10 higher than the more than 2.4 million cases that have been confirmed.

(L-R) Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) talk after after testifying during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Trump Administration's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2020. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/various sources/AFP via Getty Images

As many as 20 million Americans may have contracted the CCP virus, a figure nearly 10 higher than the more than 2.4 million cases that have been confirmed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.

In a briefing with reporters Thursday, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said surveys of blood samples taken nationwide, some by the CDC and others from blood donations and other sources, suggest that millions of Americans may have contracted the virus either without knowing it or by being asymptomatic carriers.