Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of May 22, 2025

• The number of people in the ER with COVID, flu, and RSV are all at low and stable levels.
• The number of people in the ER with all respiratory illnesses is low and decreasing.
• There is a 7-day average of 5.1 inpatients hospitalized for COVID each day in Dane County, which is the lowest level we’ve seen in the past year.

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(opens in a new window)

How to Prevent Illness

• Protect yourself from COVID-19, Flu, and RSV
• Get vaccinated  
• Vaccines.gov(link is external)

Other Data

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

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Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)