Wastewater Surveillance.
It all begins with wastewater treatment plant operators who collect wastewater samples, then the laboratories that process and analyze the samples, and finally the epidemiologists at health departments that use the data to inform public health responses.
WWTP operators collect influent wastewater samples and ship them overnight to participating laboratories in the network.
Network-affiliated laboratories process and analyze wastewater samples. Wastewater data is then shared for interpretation.
Wastewater samples with detected SARS-CoV-2 results are genetically sequenced to identify the variants and estimate their abundance.
