Dave, 24 days ago

It’s probably not news anymore. No one is reading articles about it, so they don’t publish the stories.

In Wellington there’s this flu study that also tracks COVID, but they have only just started tracking the 2024 flu season. Still, there’s a substantial number of COVID cases. In the past the most recent week has always been inaccurate as they are still waiting for the results of some testing to come through, so ignore that as it’s probably not actually a drop (based on the other axis we should see it higher than the first week’s results).

graph of flu tracking as described above. Graph has two weeks of data with the second one incomplete, and shows the breakdown of virus. COVID is the largest one but there is also Influenza A, Rhinovirus, and RSV in decent amounts. Graph also has another axis showing the rate of reported illness of study participants and the confirmed rate of illness (after testing). Both have increased from the first to the second week