Heh - You appear to be right. I looked up a moderately well known town - Ft. Dodge, IA, is -9 F & snowing, now. It looks like New Years Morning it’ll be at -20 F with wind chill of -35 F, and even wind chill of - 35 F during the day. I’d be staying in too!!!
The interactive map on the CDC site indeed seems to show the worst of the flu “moving up” from the South, with Mississippi the initial hot spot. The NE US is presently also not too badly hit (with flu) but unusually cold for that area.
My sister-in-law once saw someone wearing a “Minnesotans for Global Warming” sweatshirt. I need to have one made for Iowans.