Is Wastewater Surveillance Predictive during the Endemic Phase of Respiratory Disease? An Analysis Based on Clinical, Wastewater, and Digital Search Data in Detroit, Michigan
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a major public health innovation catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, its potential remains underexplored during and after COVID-19’s transition to endemicity. This study evaluates WBE’s potential to identify the COVID-19 pandemic-to-endemic transition and to...