Doctors said there are several reasons millions of Americans have yet to contract the virus. One of those reasons is human behaviors, meaning people take proper precautions to lower their risk of getting infected.
Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.wave hit the United States, it spread throughout the country like wildfire.
However, public health experts said it's not inevitable Americans who have not gotten COVID yet eventually will, and that there are several reasons people have been able to avoid infection so far, including certain behaviors such as being serious about masking and social distancing, vaccination rates and maybe even genetics.In this Feb. 4, 2022, file photo, a nurse gives a PCR COVID-19 test at Kaiser Permanente Arapahoe Medical Offices in Centennial, Colo.
He continued,"Maybe they have comorbidities … they may be the kind of people who are largely homebound, or not really interacting with others or are particularly careful with things like social distancing and masking, and that certainly can stop a lion's share of infections or certainly decrease the risk to where it's unlikely you'd be infected."
"One of the things that was discovered was people who had mutations in [a certain] receptor … and that was associated with not getting infected with HIV and in the uncommon people who do get infected, very slow progression to AIDS," he told ABC News. However, Ray said he thinks Americans who are unvaccinated but haven't contracted the virus yet eventually will.
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