COVID-19 wastewater epidemiology: a model to estimate infected populations

Summary: Background: Wastewater-based epidemiology provides an opportunity for near real-time, cost-effective monitoring of community-level transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater can identify the presence of COVID-19 in the community, but methods for estimating the nu...

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Main Authors: Christopher S McMahan, PhD, Stella Self, PhD, Lior Rennert, PhD, Corey Kalbaugh, PhD, David Kriebel, ProfScD, Duane Graves, PhD, Cameron Colby, MS, Jessica A Deaver, BS, Sudeep C Popat, PhD, Tanju Karanfil, ProfPhD, David L Freedman, ProfPhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-12-01
Series:The Lancet Planetary Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519621002308