PRIME RADIANT · SENTINEL
LIVE STATUS · AS OF 2026-09-01 · CDC FEED DORMANT (OFF-SEASON) · SHADOW-FORECAST CRON WEEKLY · SEASON-WATCH DAILY · GREEN

It never stops watching.

Every week of flu season, Prime Radiant forecasts hospital admissions for every US state — 23 probability levels at a time — built to file them to the CDC FluSight hub, the ensemble public-health teams use (registration in review; first live submission this season). This is the 2025–26 season, replayed: real reported data, and the forecasts the model would have made at the time — computed only from data that existed each week.

REPLAY · REAL DATA · VINTAGE-HONEST ADVISORY FEED · DRAMATIZATION 2025-11-22 → 2026-05-30 · 28 FORECAST ROUNDS
SEASON CLOCK

UNITED STATES · WEEKLY ADMISSIONS PER 100KDORMANT

SEASON SCORE
48 STATES FLAGGED · 0 MISSED · 0 FALSE ALARMS
20 FLAGGED A WEEK BEFORE CROSSING
23 flagged the crossing week ahead of its report · 5 a week behind · 4 crossed on/before round one, excluded · rule printed below · every number recomputable from public data

NATIONAL PICTUREFORECAST FAN · MEDIAN + 50% + 95%

PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY FEEDDRAMATIZATION

— standing by —
Prime Radiant does not page anyone. It produces weekly quantile forecasts for the CDC FluSight hub (registration in review); this feed imagines the alert a health department could build on those forecasts. Every number in it is real.
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STATES FLAGGED
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CONFIRMED BY REPORTS
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HEAD-START WEEKS BANKED
TUE 22:17 UTC CRON─▶ VINTAGE GUARD─▶ FORECAST · 23 QUANTILES × 53 JURISDICTIONS─▶ CDC HUB · GO-LIVE PATH PENDING · HUMAN-GATED replaying…
THE SENTINEL RULE — a demonstration lens over the model's public quantiles, chosen for this page and applied identically to all 52 jurisdictions: flag a state the first week the model's median forecast puts weekly flu admissions at or above 2.0 per 100,000 within the next two weeks; confirmed when reported admissions cross the same line.
SEASON 2025–26 SCORE — flagged 1 wk before the crossing: 20 · flagged the crossing week, ahead of its report: 23 · flagged one week behind: 5 · missed: 0 · false alarms: 0 · crossed on or before the first forecast round, excluded: 4

How to read this honestly. This is a replay, not a live feed: reported admissions are the hub's own truth data, and each forecast was computed from only the data that existed that week — the model trains on the hub's git history as it stood at each forecast date, never on what came after. A flag one week ahead of the crossing is what 1-to-2-week-horizon forecasting of a fast ramp honestly buys; the 23 flags that land on the crossing week itself still precede the report that confirms them, because reports lag the week they describe — and the five states flagged a week behind are printed in the score, not hidden. Known debt, also shown: the displayed ensemble's uncertainty bands are too narrow (50% intervals cover ~37–46% — 46% in this season), and a stricter version of this rule using the conservative quartile is never early and usually late. The fix (season bagging) is parked and public in the repo's model card.