It was the number one show in every city on Wednesday and peaked at almost 3m viewers nationally, eclipsing shows on other networks such as The Weekly with Charlie Pickering on ABC which averaged 556,00 in the five capital cities.
Alan Hay, of the World Influenza Centre in London, suggested the first wave of illness may have already peaked but could not predict how far levels would fall in this phase of the pandemic.
We've seen in the US, although they peaked many weeks ago, that the level of infection in some of the states is still quite widespread.
I'm worried that they've peaked too soon.
By 1993 Stewart was hosting his own MTV show, but when that show was cancelled in 1995 it seemed he had peaked.
Unemployment was meant to have peaked at 15% in 2012; it now stands at nearly double that with more than 50% of young Greeks out of work.
Sky Sports 1's audience between 5.30pm and 8pm averaged 2 million and peaked at 7.15pm, just into the second half, with 2.7 million.
Personally, I think they'll get it so right they might even get away with the money this time… Ealing Studios' two great directors each peaked with a classic black comedy starring Alec Guinness.
In some more highly qualified sectors, the numbers moving have already peaked.
It features the singles Sing, Thinking Out Loud and Don't, all three of which were hits: Sing became Sheeran's first UK No 1 single and his second US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 hit, Don't peaked at No 8 in the UK and Thinking Out Loud was a sleeper hit, entering the No 1 spot after 19 weeks in the charts.
Attacks peaked after the neo-fascists, riding a wave of anti-austerity fury, were catapulted into the 300-seat Athens parliament at the height of the country's financial crisis in May 2012.
