H5N1

COVID-19 cases are definitively increasing across the U.S. This year’s winter wave started late and lower than expected, but is clearly picking up now — the risk of infection will likely be high everywhere by the time people travel and gather for holidays at the end of December. For now, the Midwest and Northeast continue…

Here are the latest national COVID-19 trends, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and major wastewater surveillance providers: COVID-19 levels remain moderate this week across the U.S., continuing the plateau that we’ve been experiencing over the last month. But there are signs our expected winter increase is starting in some…

COVID-19 levels are much lower than normal for this time of year as the U.S. remains in a plateau between surges — though note that lower than normal still means much higher than the true lows we experienced earlier in the pandemic. Meanwhile, respiratory viruses like flu and RSV are starting to pick up. While…

All national Covid-19 and respiratory illness metrics suggest that disease spread continues to trend down across the U.S., following the same pattern we’ve observed over the last month. However, wastewater data suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission may be heading for a plateau as the virus continues to evolve.