Decisions about investing in building wastewater surveillance capacity should consider the vast economic and social cost of responding to infectious diseases not detected and arrested early, the authors say.
National Academies: Wastewater surveillance could be even better for detecting pathogens
Published in COVID-19
More from COVID-19More posts in COVID-19 »
- COVID 2024-25 vaccines 33% protective against emergency room or urgent care visits, data reveal
- Paxlovid may better cut risk of severe COVID outcomes in asthma patients than molnupiravir
- US flu season shows signs of peak
- Hospitalized COVID patients at higher risk for organ-related death, readmission for 2.5 years, data suggest