ReviewEmerging infectious diseases2024
Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Individual Testing Results in a Jail, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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- Infection Control in Carceral Facilities.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Review
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- Budget impact of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 in a large urban jail: an activity-based cost analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Measuring Research Engagement among Previously Incarcerated Persons and Other Carceral Stakeholders while Implementing Wastewater-based Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Jails: A Mixed-Methods Study.Research square · 2025Article
- Interventions for SARS-CoV-2 prevention among Jailed adults: A network-based modeling analysis.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2025Article
- Surveillance via wastewater monitoring and nasal self-collection of specimens (The SWANSS Study): a CFIR-informed qualitative study with key carceral and healthcare stakeholders.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Four Models of Wastewater-Based Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 Complementing Individual Screening in Jail Settings.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Wastewater threshold as an indicator of COVID-19 cases in correctional facilities for public health response: A modeling study.Water research · 2024Article
- Guiding the Implementation of Wastewater-based Surveillance for Carceral Infection Control with Perspectives from People with Lived Experience of Incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research square · 2024Article
- Carceral Health is Public Health.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
Institution-level wastewater-based surveillance was implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, including in carceral facilities. We examined the relationship between COVID-19 diagnostic test results of residents in a jail in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (average population ≈2,700), and quantitative reverse transcription PCR signal for SARS-CoV-2 in weekly wastewater samples collected during October 2021‒May 2022. The jail offered residents rapid antigen testing at entry and periodic mass screenings by reverse transcription PCR of self-collected nasal swab specimens. We aggregated individual test data, calculated the Spearman correlation coefficient, and performed logistic regression to examine the relationship between strength of SARS-CoV-2 PCR signal (cycle threshold value) in wastewater and percentage of jail population that tested positive for COVID-19. Of 13,745 nasal specimens collected, 3.9% were COVID-positive (range 0%-29.5% per week). We observed a strong inverse correlation between diagnostic test positivity and cycle threshold value (r = -0.67; p<0.01). Wastewater-based surveillance represents an effective strategy for jailwide surveillance of COVID-19.
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