Items corresponding to entire populations or subpopulations. Might be geographically or temporally temporally limited.

population

This dataset provides a complete time history of metrics calculated using SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in wastewater. The dataset is publicly available to all without restrictions. The data was archived in September 2025.

non-collection specific

(Simple) Released

Comma-separated values: a delimited text file format for tabular data.

Extensible Markup Language (XML): a general-purpose markup language for structured data.

Tab-separated values file with Excel-compatible encoding (typically UTF-16 with BOM).

TSV for Excel

RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary): an XML-based web feed format.

Comma-separated values file with Excel-compatible encoding (typically UTF-8 with BOM).

CSV for Excel

Comma-separated values file with Excel-compatible encoding for European locales (uses semicolons as field separators).

CSV for Excel (Europe)

Resource Description Framework (RDF) serialized as XML.

Special Region

County

State

United States

English

National Wastewater Surveillance System

NWSS Public SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Metric Data

A species of BETACORONAVIRUS causing atypical respiratory disease (COVID-19) in humans. The organism was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China. The natural host is the Chinese intermediate horseshoe bat, RHINOLOPHUS affinis.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

SARS-CoV2

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the site of reproduction of an organism of a different taxon.

host organism

Host

Homo sapiens

A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.

disease

Disease

A disease whose physical basis is an infectious disorder

infectious disease

Infectious Disease

A Coronavirus infection that is characterized by fever, cough and shortness of breath and that has_material_basis_in SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19

viral Infectious disease

Viruses Infection

Vaccine preventable diseases are those infectious diseases that can be prevented by vaccination

vaccine-preventable Disease

Vaccine-Preventable Disease

A respiratory tract infection caused by a virus. Viruses represent the most common causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections and include rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, and respiratory syncytial virus.

viral respiratory tract infection

Viral Respiratory Tract Infection

A disease surveillance data set that is about some wastewater disease surveillance.

wastewater surveillance data set

Wastewater

Minute infectious agents whose genomes are composed of DNA or RNA, but not both. They are characterized by a lack of independent metabolism and the inability to replicate outside living host cells.

Viruses

An organism of a particular biological taxon that is the bearer of an infectious dispositions towards an organism of a different particular biological taxon.

pathogen

Pathogen

A data item that is an aggregate of other data items of the same type that have something in common. Averages and distributions can be determined for data sets.

data set

Topic

Geographic Resolution

Digital Object Type

Apache 2.0

Schema.org vocabulary for structured data on the web

Schema.org

A structured data markup specification for describing datasets in the life sciences, extending schema.org Dataset

Bioschemas Dataset Profile

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Terms - refined elements for precise resource description

DCMI Metadata Terms

W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary for describing data catalogs

Data Catalog Vocabulary

DataCite metadata schema for research data citation

DataCite Metadata Schema

W3C Provenance Ontology for describing provenance information

PROV Ontology

Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology for metadata about web resources

PAV Ontology

Custom MIDAS vocabulary for epidemiological data and modeling

MIDAS Metadata Vocabulary

OBO Foundry ontologies for life sciences and biomedical research

Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology

GeoNames Ontology

Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7 FHIR

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms

SNOMED Clinical Terms

LOINC database for laboratory and clinical observations

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

JSON Schema (Draft 2020-12) defining the structure of MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD metadata records

MIDAS Catalog JSON-LD Schema

Searchable collection of curated datasets and software resources for infectious disease modeling, filterable by disease, topic, location, and time period.

Identifier	URL: https://data.cdc.gov/Public-Health-Surveillance/NWSS-Public-SARS-CoV-2-Wastewater-Metric-Data/2ew6-ywp6
Type	Data Set
Topics/About	Disease Infectious Disease Vaccine-Preventable Disease COVID-19 Viruses Infection Viral Respiratory Tract Infection COVID-19 Host Homo sapiens Pathogen Viruses SARS-CoV2 Wastewater
Language	English
Accessible For Free	TRUE
Biological Scale	population
Geographical Scope	United States
Geographical Resolution	Special Region, County, State
Start Date	2020/06/21
End Date	2025/08/24
Collection End Date	2025/09/12
File Format	CSV, XML, TSV for Excel, RSS, CSV for Excel, CSV for Excel (Europe), RDF
Version	unspecified
HTTP Status Code	200
HTTP Checked On	2026/09/27