As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to decline, a new report indicates that 73% of people in the United States have immune systems that can recognize the virus and are primed to fight off the omicron variant.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimated that by mid-March, as many as 80% of people could be immune to the variant.

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