Respiratory Illness Dashboard

Key Takeaways for the Week of October 23, 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.
• Last week, 1 in 3 kids aged 0-4 that were seen in the ER were diagnosed with a respiratory illness.
• Positive lab tests for rhinovirus and enterovirus, which cause colds and other respiratory infections, remain high.
• For the last two weeks, one-third of air samples taken from schools around Dane County were positive for parainfluenza, which can cause many types of lower and upper respiratory illnesses such as colds, croup, bronchiolitis/bronchitis, or pneumonia.  

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Archive of previous COVID-19 dashboard (no longer updated)