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What exactly are we to make of the stunning decline in influenza cases we’re seeing this season?
Phil Kerpen has been compiling the CDC’s data, and
remarkable doesn’t even begin to describe it.
By the sixth week of
last year, around
32% of the roughly 57,000 flu tests reported to the CDC had come back positive. And these numbers are in line with those from the previous four years as well:
In
26% positive.
From 2016 thru 2020, an average of around 44,000 influenza tests had been reported by week six, roughly
25% of which were positive
Yet, by the sixth week of