I can think of at least two infections that are probably widespread and underreported in the US. Plus, in recent years, there's a quiet little Hepatitis A epidemic in the US that the CDC is actively downplaying.

I'm aware of the hep A thing because it probably started in the homeless population in San Diego County, California. I happened to be homeless and running a blog called The San Diego Homeless Survival Guide, though I had been out of San Diego County for over two years.

I was contacted by some online rag and interviewed via email while on route to bring off the street. They misgendered me and made up a quote while cloth.

But it made me aware of the issue. So I then watched over coming months as reports of it spread further north to Los Angeles etc and eventually across the nation.

I blogged about it a few times but one dirt poor female blogger with no traction is not well positioned to essentially shout down a health crisis cover up by the US government.

Then Covid hit and people had bigger fish to fry.

I probably still have one blog post up somewhere about the quiet little Hepatitis A epidemic but I know I posted about it more than once and then redacted it more than once. I have a long history of doing that while trying to figure out this blogging thing. I do that less these days.

"Overton Window" plus who has credibility in the eyes of the public plus government goals of trying to avoid panicking people etc -- insert some Russian joke about The News isn't always true and The Truth isn't always news or something along those lines (a play on words, as I understand it, though I can count to ten in Russian and might know TEN more Russian words).