Getting COVID in 2022

"What are my odds of getting COVID" is the highest searched what are my odds related topic. The years of pandemic primetime are over, but COVID-19 is still running rampant around the world. This guide and its accompanied calculator will serve as a tool for estimating your chances of contracting the disease and what decisions you can make to alter your odds.

Worldwide, more than 500 million COVID cases have been reported, however with the prevalence of misinformation, self-quarantined cases, and asymptomatic cases – this number is likely much higher, reaching past 1 billion cases in just the last two years.

If you live in the United States there’s around a 1-in-4 chance that you have already had a COVID case. Since March 2020, 87.7 million COVID cases have been reported across the U.S. – a nation with approximately 329.5 million inhabitants. However, depending on various factors such as governmental COVID response success/failure, population density, lifestyle choices – the odds of contamination for individual Americans varies greatly.

Odds of Getting COVID Calculator

In general, your odds of contracting COVID at some point in your life are very high – as COVID is entering an endemic phase and is likely to not be eradicated in the near-future.

With current data a fair guess of the odds of getting COVID on any given day are around 30 in 100,000. As with most averages there are some people much less likely to or more likely to become infected.

With the calculator below we can estimate a more personal approximation of infection risk.