Naughton Colleen C, Roman Fernando A, Alvarado Ana Grace F, Tariqi Arianna Q, Deeming Matthew A, Kadonsky Krystin F, Bibby Kyle, Bivins Aaron, Medema Gertjan, Ahmed Warish, Katsivelis Panagis, Allan Vajra, Sinclair Ryan, Rose Joan B
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, United States.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States.
FEMS Microbes. 2023 Jan 12;4:xtad003. doi: 10.1093/femsmc/xtad003. eCollection 2023.
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.
自2019年全球冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行宣布以来的一年里，病例超过1.1亿例，死亡人数达250万。借鉴追踪脊髓灰质炎病毒等其他病毒社区传播的方法，环境病毒学家和基于废水的流行病学（WBE）领域的研究人员迅速调整了他们现有的方法，以检测废水中的严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）RNA。与COVID-19病例和死亡率数据不同，全球没有一个仪表盘来追踪全球范围内对SARS-CoV-2 RNA的废水监测情况。本研究对监测废水中SARS-CoV-2 RNA的大学、监测点和国家的“COVIDPoops19”全球仪表盘进行了为期一年的回顾。组装仪表盘的方法结合了标准文献综述、谷歌表单提交以及每日社交媒体关键词搜索。超过200所大学、1400个监测点以及55个国家（拥有59个仪表盘）对废水中的SARS-CoV-2 RNA进行了监测。然而，监测主要集中在高收入国家（65%），低收入和中等收入国家使用这一宝贵工具的机会较少（35%）。数据没有广泛公开共享，研究人员也无法获取这些数据以进一步为公共卫生行动提供信息、进行荟萃分析、更好地协调以及确定监测点的公平分布。为了在COVID-19期间及之后充分发挥WBE的潜力，请向我们展示数据。
