We're averaging 80 cases a week over the last 8 weeks nationally now (and that's the official count, not all cases are counted so this is low but maybe not by a huge amount). If you look at the numbers from prior years this century with a large number of cases there's a clear rise, peak, and decline in cases as an outbreak happens somewhere (like NY a few years ago), it's detected, and it's responded to (various means, promoting isolation, vaccination, etc.). This year we're cutting funding for vaccination right when we need to be increasing access to vaccines.<p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6840e2.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6840e2.htm</a> - 2019 as an example.<p>It was only at or around the peak of the 2019 outbreak that we saw weekly numbers comparable to this year. In fact, only 4 weeks from that year were at or over 80 cases. This year we have five weeks over 80 cases, two over 70, and one just shy of 70 (68). Last week had a reported 21 cases but that'll be revised upward this Friday (with unconfirmed cases getting added in to the confirmed count and some that were reported too late to be in last week's count).<p>And we're still in a high travel time of year, with Easter weekend coming up and the last spring breaks still happening.