Progress and Expansion of the National Wastewater Surveillance System, United States, 2020–2024
Miguella Mark-Carew, Megan Bias, Stacie Reckling, Kaniz Madhobi, Daniel Cornforth, Igor Volkov, Andrew L. Rainey, Benjamin Lorentz, Kaitlin R. Taibl, Lisa P. Oakley, Rachel West, Rory Welsh, Jeffrey W. Mercante, Niketta Womack, Nicole Fehrenbach, Jonathan Yoder · 2026
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Description
Miguella Mark-Carew and co-authors describe, in a paper dated 2026, how wastewater testing grew across the United States. Sewage can show what infections are spreading in a community before clinic data do. The national system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began as an emergency response in late 2020.
In its first four years, the system widened its testing coverage across the country. It added more germs to its target list and improved its lab methods and data displays. Public, private, and academic partners helped set common practices for reading sewage signals. The authors argue the system has become a steady part of public health, able to scale up and guide fast, data-based choices when new threats appear.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Miguella Mark-Carew, Megan Bias, Stacie Reckling, Kaniz Madhobi, Daniel Cornforth, Igor Volkov, Andrew L. Rainey, Benjamin Lorentz, Kaitlin R. Taibl, Lisa P. Oakley, Rachel West, Rory Welsh, Jeffrey W. Mercante, Niketta Womack, Nicole Fehrenbach, Jonathan Yoder |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |