Transcript for CDC media telebriefing : COVID-19 wastewater surveillance : press briefing transcript, Friday, February 4, 2022

Walensky, Rochelle P.; Kirby, Amy E.

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Transcript for CDC media telebriefing : COVID-19 wastewater surveillance : press briefing transcript, Friday, February 4, 2022

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February 4, 2022
By Walensky, Rochelle P. ; Kirby, Amy E.

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Walensky, Rochelle P. ; Kirby, Amy E.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Amy Kirby: "I’m here today to discuss the latest public health tool that’s providing critical information on COVID-19 trends, as well as giving us a glimpse into a new frontier of infectious disease surveillance in the U.S. Estimates suggests between 40 and 80% of people with COVID-19 shed viral RNA in their feces, making wastewater and sewage an important opportunity for monitoring the spread of infection. Seeing the value of collecting this type of data during the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC initiated the National Wastewater Surveillance System. Or NEWS for short, in September of 2020. What started as a grassroots effort by academic researchers and wastewater utilities has quickly become a nationwide surveillance system with more than 34,000 samples collected representing approximately 53 million Americans. Currently, CDC is supporting 37 states, four cities and two territories to help develop wastewater surveillance systems in their communities. More than 400 testing sites around the country have already begun their wastewater surveillance efforts."

25 min., 47 sec.
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Communicable Disease Control Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Data Interpretation, Statistical Environmental Monitoring Local Government Pandemics Population Surveillance Public Health Public Health Practice Public Health Surveillance Sewage/virology Waste Water
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Press Release
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National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.) ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.)
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United States
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