An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had COVID-19 — six times the official count, a study released Tuesday suggests.

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also found the coronavirus was circulating through the five boroughs “long before” the first recorded case, the study published in Nature states.

An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had COVID-19 — six times the official count, a study released Tuesday suggests. (iStock)

“We now know there were many asymptomatic and mild to moderate cases that likely went undetected,” Dr. Emilia Mia Sordillo, an attending physician in infectious diseases at the medical school and a …continued .
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