This collaborative study between the University of Miami in Florida and Weill Cornell Medicine in New York will generate, standardize, integrate, compare and make available to the RADx-rad Data Coordination Center (DCC), SARS-CoV-2 human surveillance and wastewater quantification data with various sampling, processing, detection, and analysis approaches.

UM has also initiated a pilot wastewater monitoring program to quantify the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 in effluents from building clusters on its three campuses.

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) has established an international consortium for SARS-CoV-2 environmental surveillance (MetaSUB), including developing a metagenomic map of wastewater from cities around the world.

The project will make all data, results, and models available to the community, thus providing a critical contribution to the national SARS-COV-2 RADx-rad Wastewater Detection Consortium.