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Zuzana Bohrerova1, Nichole E Brinkman, Ritu Chakravarti
1Ohio Water Resources Center (Drs Bohrerova, Lenhart, and Weavers), Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering (Drs Bohrerova, Hull, Lenhart, and Weavers), Infectious Diseases Institute (Drs Faith and Lee and Ms Savona), Sustainability Institute (Dr Hull), Department of Food Science & Technology (Dr Lee), and Center for Applied Plant Sciences (Dr Sovic), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, District of Columbia (Drs Brinkman, Garland, Jahne, Keely, and Nagarkar); Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology (Dr Chakravarti) and Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Drs Chattopadhyay and Taylor), University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, Ohio; LuminUltra Technologies Inc, Hialeah, Florida (Mr Herrin and Dr Quintero); Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (Dr Kang); Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences (Drs Lee and Weir) and Biostatistics (Drs Lemeshow and Malgave and Ms Miao), The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio; Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio (Ms Lytmer); Health Outcomes and Biotechnology Solutions, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio (Ms Minard-Smith and Dr Spurbeck); Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (Dr Mou); Department of Geosciences and Department of Biology, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio (Dr Senko); and Department of Biology, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio (Dr Slonczewski).
Context:
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater influent monitoring for tracking disease burden in sewered communities was not performed in Ohio, and this field was only on the periphery of the state academic research community.
Program:
Because of the urgency of the pandemic and extensive state-level support for this new technology to detect levels of community infection to aid in public health response, the Ohio Water Resources Center established relationships and support of various stakeholders. This enabled Ohio to develop a statewide wastewater SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) monitoring network in 2 months starting in July 2020.
Implementation:
The current Ohio Coronavirus Wastewater Monitoring Network (OCWMN) monitors more than 70 unique locations twice per week, and publicly available data are updated weekly on the public dashboard.
Evaluation:
This article describes the process and decisions that were made during network initiation, the network progression, and data applications, which can inform ongoing and future pandemic response and wastewater monitoring.
Discussion:
Overall, the OCWMN established wastewater monitoring infrastructure and provided a useful tool for public health professionals responding to the pandemic.
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