ICYMI: The CDC on Friday reported extraordinary data with the most VERY HIGH states I have ever seen on the ARI map.
Influenza-Like-Illness is the highest since 2018, and the 2nd highest for the entire dataset going back to 1998 on a year over year basis.
South Carolina is in especially bad shape.


last week

https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1882864395333800204

NEW: The CDC reports COVID is rising in 9 states, echoing the Walgreens report on Monday.

The CDC reports FLU positivity of 25%, a new season high, and the 14th consecutive increase.


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Covid positivity by HHS region here

https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1882507684894970155

BREAKING: ILI activity, which includes FLU, COVID, and other pathogens, HIT AN ALL TIME PANDEMIC HIGH for the week ending January 4.

The CDC reports an increase in flu positivity for the week ending January 4 to 18.6%.

This release was delayed from Friday, and just released today.


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2025 was worse than every year going back to 1998 except for 2000.

BREAKING: Walgreens reports the highest amount of COVID testing since September on Jan 8.

As of Jan 12, US COVID positivity is 13.2%, the lowest since November 30.

Walgreens reports the largest 1 week drop in Positivity since October 31.
THREAD:
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Source: walgreens.com/healthcare-sol…

BREAKING: The CDC releases Influenza-Like-Illness map with several jurisdictions PURPLE, including Los Angeles county, Orange county, Portland, Oregon region, Nashville, TN region, Louisiana, and Birmingham, AL region


Last week

https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1870176075256606917

CDC UPDATE: ILI ACTIVITY REPORT LISTED BELOW.
🚨SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE THAN PRE-COVD.
TREND IS TRACKING WITH THE DELTA WAVE.

FLU POSITIVITY IS ONLY 0.543, SO THE EXCESS IS ALL COVID
🧵 Last week was revised upward, which happens nearly every week.
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https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1839737623277121666

BREAKING: The CDC releases updated virus positivity rates, and ILI activity data with a 6 day lag.

Covid positivity is down in all HHS regions except 10 (WA, AK, OR, ID) which saw a small increase.
SARS-CoV-2 positivity is shown ih the 4th image.
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ILI activity is 141% higher than 2008, a year with comparable Flu positivity to present.

Flu positivity is the lowest since 2020.

COVID UPDATE: The Walgreens Covid index is indicating a NEW Summer 2023-2024 testing RECORD HIGH of 14.3k tests on August 28, with testing at the highest rate since Summer 2022!

The positivity rate is ~11x higher than the pandemic all time record low of June 18, 2021.

The positivity rate is has declined for the 4th week in a row, and is the lowest since June 20th. 🧵


Not shown: IDAHO 17.9% positivity rate
States in white not statistically significant OR no change.
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BREAKING: Walgeens Covid data is showing a NEW Summer season 2023-2024 testing RECORD high, the highest since 2022 Summer when tests were highly subsidized.
Colorado hit a 2024 RECORD positivity high on Aug 16.
Positivity data is showing a steady dropping pattern for the 2nd week in a row.
Positivity is the lowest since July 2, and has dropped 3.5% from the August 6 high.
Testing is the highest since March 4.
🧵


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UPDATE: For the first time during this Summer Covid wave, ILI (influenza like illness) activity EXCEEDS 2022 year over year as reported in this week's CDC report.

ILI activity for the week ending Aug 3 in 2024 is 112% worse than 2019.
For the week ending Aug 10 it is 100% worse now than in 2019.

The CDC revised upward by ~5.7% LAST weeks ILI activity! This is the highest upward revision I have reported since began tracking ILI this year.

Last week I reported ages 25+ were more adversely affected more than ages 0-24.

This is hard evidence that the population as a whole are MUCH worse off now than the same period in 2019.
🧵 2/ The latest week is below

BREAKING: Walgreens Covid data is showing a new summer 2023-2024 testing record high on August 11 of over 12k tests, the highest during summer since 2022. Data is updated to Monday, August 12 showing a positive rate of 38.3% the lowest since July 5. NEW data shown below. 🧵


Walgreens updated data to Monday today.

BREAKING: Walgreens Covid data is reporting a NEW PANDEMIC ALL TIME RECORD POSITIVITY HIGH of 40.5% on August 6 when excluding weeks with under 9k tests.
A new summer testing high was reached with 11.2k tests done, and testing is still trending higher. This is the highest testing rate during summer since 2022! Data shows the latest positivity rate of 39.4% as of August 8.


Not shown: Idaho 21.4%

UPDATE: As of August 4, Walgreens is reporting COVID testing positivity of 40.2% which is ONLY .3% lower than the 40.5% hit on July 18 *AND* TESTING HIT A NEW SUMMER HIGH OF OVER 10.5K! The peak may still be yet to come according to this report. 🧵


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https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1814174010202345761

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https://twitter.com/CharlesKikumoto/status/1814191607958425921

UPDATE: WALGREENS COVID TESTING DATA IS SHOWING THE LARGEST 1 DAY INCREASE IN TESTING SINCE JANUARY 8, 2024 (EXCLUDING HOLIDAY PERIODS) PRIOR TO THE INCREASE, POSITIVITY HIT 40.4% IN THIS WEEKS DATA, THE HIGHEST SINCE SEPTEMBER 6, 2023. AS OF YESTERDAY, POSITIVITY IS 39.2%, THE FIRST DECREASE AFTER 10 WEEKS OF INCREASES. TESTING IS THE HIGHEST SINCE APRIL 1, THE HIGHEST SINCE THE SUMMER WAVE BEGAN.


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UPDATE: The Walgreens Covid positivity rate has increased for the 9th week in a row to 36.5%, the highest since September 13, 2023.


States in white are either no change, or the testing level is not statistically significant.

UPDATE: The US Walgreens Covid positivity rate is now the highest since September 2023! 🧵


Plenty of red. See the line chart of rising positivity in the top right.

UPDATE: Walgreens Covid positivity tracker is showing a 27.1% positive rate which is the highest since February 3! 🧵


2/ Testing at Walgreens has been in a long term falling trend, however testing is at the highest level since April 25.

UPDATE: Walgreens Covid positivity tracker is showing a significant increase in positivity. Positivity is the highest since February 22! 🧵





Lots of red this week. States in white had a low number of tests.

UPDATE: ILI activity from the CDC is updated. As you can see, the off season is significantly higher than they were before 2020 as seen on this graph. This is evidence people are getting sick more often than they were before 2020. The years shown are 2023-2024 and 2014-2019. Here is the same graph from the previous tweet showing 2019 to present. Only 2022 was worse than it is now.

This makes sense now.

Sources. I

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