Slow down of human cases since December?

Hi all, first of all I want to be clear I am a complete and total layperson who has only been following HPAI in the last year or so. I am reaching out with a question - it seems to me that in the last few weeks/months of 2024, there were human cases being confirmed at least once a week for a few weeks. I know that there have been cases so far in 2025 (including the first human death). Yet the rate of confirmed cases has seemed (again, to me) to have slowed significantly. Many people seemed to assume this was due to a lack of testing during the holidays. Is this still the case? Are farm workers using PPE with more regularity? Or some other reason I am ignorant to?

In sum, I am wondering if anyone has insight into why we might be hearing of fewer human cases in the last few weeks. If this is not the case and I am misinformed, I apologize and would love to be corrected! Thanks!

(If these types of questions are not allowed, please feel free to delete of course)