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Current as of 12/23/2024

The CDC switching to Verily, who uses WastewaterSCAN to do their data analyses, resulted in an overall net loss in our covid wastewater monitoring, reported as of 7/10/2024.

*Additional data losses on 7/15/2024, 7/21/2024, and 7/26/2024.

List in Excel of Lost Data Sites Below:

WWSCAN_Data No Longer Being Collected from Sites_V3.xlsx

These US states as of 7/10/2024, are listed by Verily as not having data through the WastewaterSCAN program: Oregon, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, South Carolina, and Rhode Island.

20 US states shown below as of 7/10/2024, are listed by both Verily and WastewaterSCAN as having one facility or less to represent the entire state: Oregon, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, South Carolina, and Rhode Island (Red/no facilities), and Washington, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Connecticut (Yellow/1 facility).

The District of Columbia also lost their only wastewater surveillance facility on 7/21/2024 (not shown).

Sick Times/WastewaterSCAN Webinar with Ali Boehm (8/21/2024)

We learned 2 very important things during this webinar:

1. Loss of 46 sites stated for 2 major reasons. The first, being that wastewaterSCAN is moving to expand their disease tracking (for example including Mpox clade I), so they made cuts to the ‘smaller’ wastewater facilities to compensate for their future plans. The second stated reason being that they (incorrectly) believe that they can “optimize the temporal spacing of facilities to provide adequate information to neighboring communities”.