AUG 1, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Exploring community-level gut health amidst COVID-19 pandemic: a proposed application of longitudinal wastewater surveillance
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
An exploratory, uncontrolled observational study of wastewater microbiota during COVID-19 that demonstrates feasibility of a novel surveillance method but lacks clinical endpoints, comparators, or causal evidence linking microbial shifts to health outcomes.
Reported
Sample size69
Study durationAugust 2020 through June 2022 (23 months)
Geographic sites2 central Ohio cities (Columbus and Newark)