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County epidemiologist and state present seasonal respiratory review and wastewater surveillance successes
Summary
Pitkin County’s epidemiologist summarized the tail of respiratory season—early influenza A driven hospitalizations, late RSV, and low COVID activity—while a state wastewater program lead described how wastewater monitoring detects trends (COVID, flu, RSV, measles, EV‑D68) and provided examples where wastewater gave early warning to local partners.
Pitkin County received a public‑health briefing on May 12 that combined a local epidemiology update with a detailed presentation from the Colorado wastewater surveillance team.
Carly, the county epidemiologist, said influenza A was the major driver of hospitalizations earlier this season because a subclade (subclade K) did not match well with vaccine strains; national data show flu vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization near 30 percent. She reported a late‑season increase in RSV that contributed to…
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