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Corporate Authors:
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
Description:
Updated Aug. 17, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with agencies throughout the federal government, are initiating the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data generated by NWSS will help public health officials to better understand the extent of COVID-19 infections in communities.

CDC is currently developing a portal for state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to submit wastewater testing data into a national database for use in summarizing and interpreting data for public health action. Participation in a national database will ensure data comparability across jurisdictions.

Data from wastewater testing is not meant to replace existing COVID-19 surveillance systems, but is meant to complement them by providing:

• An efficient pooled community sample.

• Data for communities where timely COVID-19 clinical testing is underutilized or unavailable.

• Data at the sub-county level.


Content Notes:
What is wastewater surveillance for COVID-19? -- What are the advantages of wastewater infectious disease surveillance? -- Is wastewater surveillance right for my community? -- How do I become engaged in NWSS?
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Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Environmental Monitoring Public Health Surveillance Sewage/virology Waste Water Wastewater-Based Epidemiological Monitoring
Document Type:
Webpage
Name as Subject:
National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.) ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.)
National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.) ; National Wastewater Surveillance System (U.S.) Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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urn:sha256:783e303cb872e6597cfa2fae9b7958b38858e56c47090c90a1f0be3d95fc25f7
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/92204/cdc_92204_DS1.pdf
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