Wastewater based surveillance can be used to reduce clinical testing intensity on a university campus.

ABSTRACT: Clinical testing has been a vital part of the response to and suppression of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, testing imposes significant burdens on a population. College students had to contend with clinical testing while simultaneously dealing with health risks and the academic pressures brought on by quarantines, changes to virtual platforms, and other disruptions to daily life. The objective of this study was to analyze whether wastewater surveillance can be used to decrease the intensity of clinical testing while maintaining reliable measurements of diseases incidence on campus. Twelve months of human health and wastewater surveillance data for eight residential buildings on a university campus were analyzed to establish how SARS-CoV-2 levels in the wastewater can be used to minimize c

SUBMITTER: Amirali A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10923133 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature