As we predicted, the Covid fear-hype was another total dud. The wave peak (red line) now looks pretty firmly in:

The national COVID (including people who are in the hospital for some other reason but incidentally test positive, which is more than half the total) inpatient census print for January 13 is already down 17.7% from the January 3 peak, which was itself down 28% from last year’s January 4, 2023 peak.

Can we now stop with the alarmist headlines every winter? Cold and flu season is cold, flu, and COVID season now, and it happens every year.