Well, this sucks. The Trump administration is cutting the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) budget from around $125 million a year to about $25 million.
We could lose the most cost-effective and accurate methods we have to track #COVID19, flu, RSV and other pathogens in the US.
I think we'd still have smaller private sources, such as WastewaterSCAN, but I'm not sure how much of the monitoring by individual sewersheds is funded by the NWSS.
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https://www.newsweek.com/worrying-covid-cicada-variant-spreads-as-us-maps-go-dark-12019859
Augie Ray
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