(COLORADO) — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will release its statewide monitoring of respiratory virus data on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The dashboard will now include COVID-19, rather than the novel respiratory virus having its own dashboard as in previous years. CDPHE said that with the "combined" dashboard, people can more easily see the levels of each virus in a way that is easy to navigate. “As we continue to transition our approach to monitoring COVID-19, data will focus on the leading indicators of trends and severity including hospitalizations, emergency department visits, percent positivity from sentinel laboratories, deaths due to COVID-19, variants, and wastewater,” state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said. The dashboard will be updated weekly on Wednesdays by 4 p.m.