{"id":5624,"date":"2023-12-26T17:33:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2023-12-26T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T23:33:47","slug":"a-big-shift-in-collecting-covid-data-from-case-counts-to-monitoring-poop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/12\/26\/a-big-shift-in-collecting-covid-data-from-case-counts-to-monitoring-poop\/","title":{"rendered":"A big shift in collecting COVID data \u2014 from case counts to monitoring poop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/12\/19\/1220192678\/a-new-normal-6-stories-about-the-evolving-u-s-covid-response-in-2023\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, the CDC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/05\/05\/1174112653\/cdc-to-change-how-it-reports-covid-information-and-stop-reporting-new-cases\">stopped collecting data<\/a>\u00a0on new infections (as in positive tests) \u2013 relying instead on COVID hospitalizations, deaths and,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nwss\/rv\/COVID19-nationaltrend.html\">increasingly, on wastewater surveillance<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a network set up during the pandemic to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/04\/24\/1171177281\/wastewater-surveillance-covid-tracking\">regularly test sewage samples<\/a>\u00a0from around the country. The surveillance network has expanded beyond COVID to track\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/10\/21\/1207700280\/seasonal-virus-flu-rsv-covid\">flu, RSV, norovirus<\/a>\u00a0and other health threats that are detectable in human waste.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Earlier this year, the CDC\u00a0stopped collecting data\u00a0on new infections (as in positive tests) \u2013 relying instead on COVID hospitalizations, deaths and,\u00a0increasingly, on wastewater surveillance\u00a0\u2013 a network set up during the pandemic to\u00a0regularly test sewage samples\u00a0from around the country. The surveillance network has expanded beyond COVID to track\u00a0flu, RSV, norovirus\u00a0and other health threats that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}