TY - JOUR
T1 - Show us the data
T2 - global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring efforts, equity, and gaps
AU - Naughton, Colleen C.
AU - Roman, Fernando A.
AU - Alvarado, Ana Grace F.
AU - Tariqi, Arianna Q.
AU - Deeming, Matthew A.
AU - Kadonsky, Krystin F.
AU - Bibby, Kyle
AU - Bivins, Aaron
AU - Medema, Gertjan
AU - More Authors, null
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - A year since the declaration of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there were over 110 million cases and 2.5 million deaths. Learning from methods to track community spread of other viruses such as poliovirus, environmental virologists and those in the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) field quickly adapted their existing methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Unlike COVID-19 case and mortality data, there was not a global dashboard to track wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA worldwide. This study provides a 1-year review of the “COVIDPoops19” global dashboard of universities, sites, and countries monitoring SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Methods to assemble the dashboard combined standard literature review, Google Form submissions, and daily, social media keyword searches. Over 200 universities, 1400 sites, and 55 countries with 59 dashboards monitored wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 RNA. However, monitoring was primarily in high-income countries (65%) with less access to this valuable tool in low- and middle-income countries (35%). Data were not widely shared publicly or accessible to researchers to further inform public health actions, perform meta-analysis, better coordinate, and determine equitable distribution of monitoring sites. For WBE to be used to its full potential during COVID-19 and beyond, show us the data.
AB - A year since the declaration of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there were over 110 million cases and 2.5 million deaths. Learning from methods to track community spread of other viruses such as poliovirus, environmental virologists and those in the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) field quickly adapted their existing methods to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Unlike COVID-19 case and mortality data, there was not a global dashboard to track wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA worldwide. This study provides a 1-year review of the “COVIDPoops19” global dashboard of universities, sites, and countries monitoring SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater. Methods to assemble the dashboard combined standard literature review, Google Form submissions, and daily, social media keyword searches. Over 200 universities, 1400 sites, and 55 countries with 59 dashboards monitored wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 RNA. However, monitoring was primarily in high-income countries (65%) with less access to this valuable tool in low- and middle-income countries (35%). Data were not widely shared publicly or accessible to researchers to further inform public health actions, perform meta-analysis, better coordinate, and determine equitable distribution of monitoring sites. For WBE to be used to its full potential during COVID-19 and beyond, show us the data.
KW - COVIDPoops19 dashboard
KW - Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
KW - open data
KW - public health
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - wastewater-based epidemiology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162311127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/femsmc/xtad003
DO - 10.1093/femsmc/xtad003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85162311127
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - FEMS Microbes
JF - FEMS Microbes
M1 - xtad003
ER -
