Infectious Diseases Risk in Ohio

Infectious Diseases Risk is a combined indicator that captures the overall burden of respiratory infectious disease in an area. It incorporates flu, COVID-19, RSV, and other circulating respiratory pathogens into a single score, useful when you want a general respiratory illness risk reading rather than a per-pathogen breakdown.

Infectious Diseases risk in Ohio is reported as a weekly score on a four-point scale: Low, Moderate, High, and Very High. The score reflects the modeled burden of Infectious Diseases across the state, validated against public health data from CDC, HHS, NOAA, and other authoritative sources. Methodology details are available at https://www.hubbubworld.com/intelligence#methodology.

Hubbub World pulls data from multiple authoritative sources: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for flu, COVID-19, and RSV surveillance; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for hospital and community health indicators; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for weather and air quality; and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) for allergen reporting. Data is collected continuously from these sources and aggregated to the county and state level on a weekly cadence.

Hubbub World fits proprietary models on top of the underlying surveillance, environmental, and weather data to produce comparable risk scores across all U.S. counties. Each of the seven risks is reported on a four-point scale (Low, Moderate, High, Very High) so the scores are interpretable without needing the raw underlying numbers. The full methodology — including the modeling approach, validation against authoritative sources, and known limitations — is documented at https://www.hubbubworld.com/intelligence#methodology.

Current Infectious Diseases risk levels and 30-day forecasts for Ohio are exclusive to the bub app, available free on iOS, Android, and Apple Watch at https://bub.hubbubworld.com. This web page is the six-week historical archive — the bub app is where today's data and forecasts live.

Several of the risks Hubbub World tracks have a seasonal pattern in Ohio — flu and RSV typically peak in fall and winter, allergies vary with tree, grass, and weed pollen seasons, and severe weather risks shift with the calendar. Infectious Diseases risk in Ohio is reported weekly so seasonal patterns are visible across the six-week archive on this page. For 30-day forward forecasts that show how seasonal patterns are evolving, get the bub app at https://bub.hubbubworld.com.