NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — We don’t have to tell you that we’re in the thick of cold and flu season.

But we’re also in the middle of pink eye season — the time of the year when people get that awful, itchy and goopy eye infection, CBS 2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported Tuesday.

It was the image that had everyone talking about pink eye — Bob Costas at the Sochi Olympics. It got so bad the television anchor was forced to sit out a few nights of the coverage.