Colorado Springs School Illness Watch

Report for September 17, 2026 — view the latest report

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Snapshot as of September 17, 2026

Summary

CDPHE updated El Paso County unchanged

CDPHE posted its weekly refresh (dated 9/16/2026, up from 9/9/2026). Overall respiratory illness activity in Colorado stays at Very Low, and week-over-week moves in COVID/flu/RSV ED-visit and sentinel-positivity rates are all small. The one figure worth a note: SARS-CoV-2 wastewater is now trending up in 16 of 21 monitored utilities, versus 10/21 last week — a bigger jump than the other metrics, though it hasn't translated into higher clinical activity yet. Flu and RSV wastewater detections are unchanged. El Paso County's local dashboard and "What's Going Around" bulletin are both unchanged from the last check.

Colorado statewide — CDPHE viral respiratory report

Overall activity: Very Low
PathogenED visitsSentinel lab positivity
COVID-190.22% (▼0.04)3.13% (▲0.07)
Influenza0.15% (▲0.04)1.04% (▲0.18)
RSV0.01% (▲0.01)0.09% (▼0.08)
WastewaterUtilities detectedMonitored
SARS-CoV-2 (rising)1621
Influenza021
RSV121

Verified today via browser rendering. Dashboard's weekly update moved from 9/9/2026 to 9/16/2026 — the expected Wednesday refresh. Data updates weekly by ~4pm Mountain on Wednesdays.

El Paso County — local data

Communicable Disease Data Dashboard: re-rendered today — still shows last updated 9/9/2026 (main data), 9/9/2026 (animal bite/exposure), 5/27/2026 (seasonal respiratory). No change. Main data updates the second Wednesday of each month (next: Oct. 14).

"What's Going Around" bulletin: confirmed today via the archive page — still discontinued. Most recent issue covered Sept. 7–20, 2025 (published Sept. 20, 2025). No new issue has appeared.

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