Flu Season Shapes

Weekly flu patient counts overlaid across seasons, aligned by week of season. Flu seasons tend to fall into a few shapes — an early peak, a late peak, or a low slow burn that finishes late. As a new season arrives week by week, this shows which past season it most resembles so far — a starting point for modelling. Charts are computed in R, in your browser, via webR.

⚠ Showing illustrative, synthetic data — not real NHS figures. See the README for how to drop in real NHS England weekly flu data.

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The bold line. Compared against all other seasons.

Weeks since the season start (ISO wk 14, April). Pretend only this many are in yet.

Seasons overlaid

Closest past seasons so far

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