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Key Takeaways for the Week of November 26, 2025
- Now is a great time to get your flu and COVID vaccine from your healthcare provider or pharmacy. Learn more about fall vaccine recommendations and where to get one.
- COVID, flu, and RSV currently remain at low levels.
- Positive lab tests for rhinovirus and enterovirus, which cause colds and other respiratory infections, remain high.
- ER visits for any respiratory illness have been steadily increasing among children. Last week, over 1 in 3 kids aged 0-4 that were seen in the ER were diagnosed with a respiratory illness.
- We're interested in learning more about how the community is using this dashboard. Please take our 5-10 minute survey to share your feedback.
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
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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.
