Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of 12/19

• The number of people in the ER with flu and RSV is increasing. Lab testing in Dane County is showing steady increases in positive flu and RSV tests.
• Flu and RSV related hospitalizations are slowly increasing as well.
• Over one third of kids 4 and under were in the ER due to respiratory illnesses last week. COVID, flu, and RSV activity are not high enough to account for the high numbers of kids this age group in the ER, so other respiratory gunk is mostly what's making people sick.

Dashboard Update Schedule

Note: due to the winter holidays, the dashboard will be updated on Friday 12/27 instead of Thursday 12/26. It will be updated again on Thursday 1/2. 

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Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)