Flu cases have dropped significantly locally and state-wide
The flu was rampant locally and statewide about a month ago but the confirmed cases have dropped significantly.
State-wide there were 71,123 flu cases during the week ending Dec. 20, the most since the state started doing a weekly tracker of the cases in 2004.
Since then the cases dropped to 49,153 the week ending Dec. 27; 28,554 for the week of Jan. 3; 22,558 the week of Jan. 10; and 12,049 for the week ending Jan. 17.
Locally the cases also have been declining. Orleans County reported an average of 71.4 cases per 100,000 people the week ending Jan. 17. That is down from 126.0 the week of Jan. 10; 204.1 the week of Jan. 3; and 196.5 in the weeks ending Dec. 27 and Dec. 20. (The county’s population is the 2020 census was 40,343.)
