Gregory J Hall, Eric J Page, Min Rhee, Clara Hay, Amelia Krause, Emma Langenbacher, Allison Ruth, Steve Grenier, Alexander P Duran, Ibrahim Kamara, John K Iskander, Fahad Alsayyid, Dana L Thomas, Edward Bock, Nicholas Porta, Jessica Pharo, Beth A Osterink, Sharon Zelmanowitz, Corinna M Fleischmann, Dilhara Liyanage, Joshua P Gray
OBJECTIVES: Military training centers and seagoing vessels are often environments at high risk for the spread of COVID-19 and other contagious diseases, because military trainees and personnel arrive after traveling from many parts of the country and live in congregate settings. We examined whether levels of SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in wastewater correlated with SARS-CoV-2 infections among military personnel living in communal barracks and vessels at US Coast Guard training centers in the United States...
April 1, 2024: Public Health Reports