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Wastewater Surveillance as an Event Detection System: Outbreak and Peak Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Across 281 U.S. Counties

2026-05-19

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Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) is increasingly used to monitor infectious disease dynamics, yet most evaluations focus on correlation or forecasting—neither of which directly assesses whether wastewater signals can identify the epidemiological events most relevant to public health decision-making. We argue that outbreak onset and epidemic peak detection are the operationally critical use cases of WBS, requiri...

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Literature Corpus work: 35b0ae04-d4aa-5e34-a52d-f8f687bf8fbd
DOI: 10.64898/2026.05.14.26353186

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