CDC: U.S. COVID-19 cases may be 6 to 24 times higher than reported 

The true number of COVID-19 cases in the United States may be 6 to 24 times higher than reported, according to a new study published Tuesday.

In the cross-sectional study of 16,025 residual clinical specimens, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the proportion of persons with detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies ranged from 1 percent in the San Francisco Bay area to 6.9 percent in New York City.

The pandemic in the U.S. will probably get worse before it gets better, U.S. President Donald Trump said at a press briefing Tuesday.

The U.S. has recorded 14,835,470 cases as of 6:34 p.m. EDT on Tuesday with 613,710 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.