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Federal research priorities to support wastewater surveillance for SARS-COV-2
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March 30, 2022
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Description:Almost immediately after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, researchers and wastewater utilities around the world began analyzing untreated wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 RNA. These efforts were largely based on prior experience analyzing wastewater for poliovirus, presence of opioids, and other contaminants. Early reports from the Netherlands1 indicated that detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater signaled the presence of the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19, in the community served by the wastewater utility before reported clinical cases. As word of these efforts spread, the public health community began to take interest in the approach and its value in informing public health responses such as resource allocation, community mitigation strategies (e.g., mask wearing), and resolution to conflicting individual based surveillance data. In the United States, environmental microbiology and engineering researchers and others began to rapidly pivot their focus to this emerging field of science in support of the COVID-19 response. Federal agencies supported the rapid development of this growing field by providing funding for wastewater surveillance research and implementation projects .
The urgency of the pandemic prevented the preparation of a coordinated national level strategy to articulate overall science and technology needs associated with wastewater surveillance. The establishment of the National Sewage Surveillance Inter-Agency Leadership Council (NSSILc) in the summer of 2020, convened by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary of Health, provided a venue for discussing and coordinating implementation and science and technology needs related to wastewater surveillance across the federal government. NSSILc quickly established two working groups, Implementation and Planning (IP) and Science and Technology Evaluation for Practice (STEP). Shortly thereafter, in the fall of 2020, the United States established a new public health program, the National Wastewater Surveillance System or NWSS3 under the leadership of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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