Brief: Understanding COVID-19 Risk Levels for Facilities

Disease trends in a facility’s wastewater can guide mitigation response efforts and prevent localized COVID-19 outbreaks. However, understanding these data and trends can be challenging for decision makers. COVID-19 Risk Levels provide a simplified interpretation of a facility’s wastewater data to help customers prepare for changes in COVID-19 activity. This algorithm turns data from recent wastewater samples into a simple and informative alert that categorizes the probability a facility will see sustained, elevated COVID-19 activity in the near future.

In this brief, you’ll learn:

• COVID-19 Risk Levels provide a simple, informative alert system
• What COVID-19 Risk Levels mean and how they can be used
• The methodology behind developing COVID-19 Risk Levels