How To Keep Tabs On COVID Through Wastewater Testing In NYC

Sep 27, 2023

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Three years into the pandemic, low testing rates and spotty case reporting are making it harder to know how widespread COVID-19 is in New York City at any given moment.

Hospitalization rates remain a useful indicator, but by the time a flood of patients are admitted to the hospital for COVID, the virus has already spread.

To get an early warning sign that COVID is surging, health officials have turned to wastewater data — and THE CITY is adding this new tool to our Coronavirus in New York City tracker.