Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of July 31, 2025

• The number of people in the ER with COVID, flu, RSV, and all respiratory illnesses are all at low and stable levels.
• Positive lab tests for  rhinovirus and enterovirus, which causes colds and other respiratory infections, are higher than those for any other respiratory virus.
• COVID infections continue to be increasing in Southeast, Southern, and West Coast states. Over the past few weeks, there have been several significant increases in COVID-19 samples in Madison’s wastewater sewersheds. However, overall levels remain low. Other local indicators, including data from emergency departments, clinical lab tests, and hospitalizations also show that COVID activity remains low in the area.

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. 

About These Data

Learn more about these data by reading our data notes

How to Prevent Illness

• Protect yourself from COVID-19, Flu, and RSV
• Get vaccinated  
• Vaccines.gov

Other Data

• Wisconsin Department of Health Services
  • Wastewater Data
  • Vaccination Data: Flu, COVID-19, RSV
  • Respiratory Illness Data
  • Emergency Department Visit Data for COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV
  • Laboratory-Based Respiratory Virus Data
• National COVID data
• National Flu data
• Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene

Wastewater Data

This dashboard from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services shows the levels of COVID in wastewater across the state. To see the most up-to-date data for Madison, click on "Madison" in the left column. 

Flu Vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccines

Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)