New York is feeling fluish
The bright blue line is this year. The light blue lines are previous years.
New York is one the states currently listed as having "widespread" flu activity, according to the CDC's latest report (which is a little old at this point). And Google Flu trends -- which often is a bit ahead of the official reports -- also has NYS pegged as a "high" activity state for the flu.
But get this: most of the flu activity seems to be in New York City. It appears that upstate is just beginning to see the wave (if it ever arrives -- the flu is weird and hard to predict). In fact, Google Flu's experimental city report has the major upstate cities -- including Albany -- listed as "low" (NYC is "high").
There's still time to get a flu shot. The CDC has a helpful flu jab finder.
Of course, these reports don't cover whatever the cough/cold it is that seems be circulating in the Capital Region right now (anecdotally).
So, uh, wash your hands. And cough into your arm.
graph: Google Flu Trends
... said KGB about Drawing: What's something that brought you joy this year?