Volume 30, Supplement - Infectious Diseases and Carceral Health
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Surveillance
Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Individual Testing Results in a Jail, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Lindsay B. Saber, Shanika S. Kennedy, Yixin Yang, Kyler N. Moore, Yuke Wang, Stephen P. Hilton, Tylis Y. Chang, Pengbo Liu, Victoria L. Phillips, Matthew J. Akiyama, Christine L. Moe, and Anne C. Spaulding
Table 2
Summary of COVID-19 diagnostic testing results at the Fulton County Jail, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 2021–May 2022*
| COVID-19 diagnostics weekly | Mean (SD) per week | Median per week | Minimum–maximum per week | Totals over entire study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. diagnostic tests | 491 (176) | 443 | 267–961 | 13,745 |
| No. rapid tests | 356 (84) | 363 | 186–554 | 9,975 |
| No. PCR tests | 222 (167) | 186 | 20–591 | 3,770 |
| % Jail population tested† | 18.3 (7.1) | 16 | 9.7–38.2 | NA |
| Overall percentage positivity‡ | 3.39 (6.56) | 0.55 | 0–29.5 | NA |
*NA, not applicable. †Numerator is the number of positive test results in a given week, denominator is the jail population for the week. ‡Numerator is the number of positive test results in a given week, denominator is the total tests for the same week
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