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Norwalk health staff: flu and overall respiratory activity high; wastewater shows rising COVID signals
Summary
Norwalk Health Department staff presented CDC and state data showing very high influenza activity, sustained high national respiratory illness levels and increasing wastewater signals for COVID-19. Staff urged vaccinations, testing, masking and ventilation measures ahead of spring break.
Brian Weeks, a Norwalk Health Department staff member, told the Community Services Committee on Feb. 2025 that national and state surveillance show very high influenza activity and elevated overall respiratory illness.
"This red bar here that's mentioning a high, overall respiratory illness activity in The United States remains high," Weeks said while reviewing CDC dashboards, adding that emergency-department visits for influenza are "currently an increasing trend" while emergency visits for respiratory syncytial virus are at moderate, decreasing levels and COVID-19 emergency visits are lower but wastewater viral activity for COVID-19 is high.
Weeks said wastewater surveillance — which detects viral shedding across a community — is a useful early indicator and noted that COVID-19…
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