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A transparent EWMA-based early-warning index for RSV and influenza A from WastewaterSCAN wastewater signals, benchmarked against CDC laboratory surveillance

2026-01-22 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Wastewater based epidemiology offers a valuable population level signal for monitoring respiratory virus activity, but its routine use in public health practice requires alerting methods that are transparent, interpretable, and comparable across locations. In this study, we propose a simple early warning framework that transforms wastewater viral RNA measurements into actionable alerts using a standardized statistical process control approach. The method relies on variance stabilization, site sp...

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