Monkeypox seems to have petered out on its own. Haven’t heard about a polio outbreak for months. Still can’t figure out how to pronounce “syncytial”.
I guess I’m flat out of bogeymen.
COVID, as of Friday the 13th: Now 18/100k/day, down from 20 a week ago.
Data source for this and other graphs of new case counts: Calculated from The New York Times. (2021). Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States. Retrieved 1/14/2023, from https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data.” The NY Times U.S. tracking page may be found at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
The U.S. flu season, from the CDC Fluview interactive system. Each panel is one week, ending with the first week of January 2023. By eye, peak was around the first week of December.
We could still have a double-dip flu season. And for sure, flu could flare up within a few individual localities. But the odds are that “the U.S. flu season” has peaked for 2022-23.
