Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of March 6, 2025

• The number of people in the ER with flu is still at a moderate level, but both ER visits for flu and flu-related hospitalizations have continued on a downward trend since their peak a month ago.
• Young kids are still experiencing a lot of respiratory illness. Last week 16% of ER visits among all ages were due to respiratory illness, but 39% of ER visits among 0-4 year olds were due to respiratory illness. There has also been a small uptick in the number of people hospitalized for RSV in the past week.
• COVID levels remain low overall, but there still have been 14 reported deaths due to COVID so far this year, compared to 10 for flu.

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Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)