Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of November 5, 2026

  • Flu keeps rising. Emergency department visits for flu are going up, especially for adults ages 18-64. Lab tests also show flu continuing to rise. Now is a good time to get up to date on your flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines. Read our guidance and recommendations.
  • COVID is showing up more in school air samples. Air sampling data from schools in Dane County has shown more COVID detections. Last week, just over half of samples detected COVID.
  • Pneumonia is rising in older adults. Emergency department visits for pneumonia have been going up for people 65 and older since the middle of September.

Dashboard Update Schedule

This dashboard is updated on Thursdays at 12:30 pm. If the dashboard is not updated then, we may be experiencing technical issues; check back at 4:30 pm. If we experience a delay in receiving data from one of our data sources, that data element will be updated the following week. 


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How to Prevent Illness


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