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Norwalk health staff report improving respiratory season but warn of local measles risk
Summary
Norwalk Health Department presented regional and national respiratory illness trends showing improving flu and RSV but elevated COVID-19 wastewater signals in Connecticut, and reviewed a growing national measles outbreak; health officials urged up-to-date MMR vaccination and outlined local vaccine access.
Brian Weeks, the Norwalk Health Department program director of epidemiology and informatics, delivered a prerecorded update at the Board of Health meeting March 25 that described improving national respiratory illness trends alongside localized COVID-19 signals and a continuing national measles outbreak.
Weeks said national emergency-department and wastewater indicators show overall respiratory activity decreasing, with influenza at moderate levels and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) low. “We are experiencing low overall respiratory illness activity,” Weeks said in the recording, but he added that wastewater surveillance in Connecticut is still showing comparatively high SARS-CoV-2 viral signals, which can presage higher case activity locally.
The state-level wastewater signal, Weeks said, means…
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