Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of 10/17

• There's still a lot of COVID circulating in our community (wastewater levels of COVID remain high).
• Compared to this summer, fewer people with COVID are landing in the emergency room and fewer COVID tests done by healthcare are positive, so severity of infection may be less or people may not be seeking healthcare for COVID infections.
• Flu and RSV activity hasn't picked up yet this year--we're seeing low and stable levels in our emergency room data.
• Based on one school district in Dane County, fewer kids have been out sick from school in the last two weeks.

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Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)