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and you can access it on the cdc s covid tracker. for more on this we re joined by admiral brett giroir, secretary for health in the department of health and human services. he also led the trump administration s covid testing efforts. admiral, the cdc started to develop this wastewater surveillance system at the end of the trump administration. so explain how this works and the significance of these results from testing wastewater? well, thank you for having me on. this is really an important moment. as early as may or june of 2020, we had very early suggestive evidence that not only could you detect covid in wastewater, in sewage, but it predicted and preceded by 4 to 6 days a rise of cases in emergency rooms and hospitals in the community. so as you said, we did start in the trump administration. i convened the first federal working group in july. i started the national surveillance system at cdc in september and funded it for $50 million in november of that year. so it s great to
surveillance approach phins announced in 2020, one that identifieds wastewater. it s called the national wastewater surveillance system and including sites. it flags possible future covid surges to get resources into place and to warn hospitals. the covid in the waste water comes up before it started coming to the attention in the hospital. really interesting. the reverse is true too. the levels go down before the case counts go down in the local area. so it s a really great indicator of what s going to half. cases are going to continue to decline. reporter: but it pain as clear picture of the toll on the pandemic. nearly 200,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities have died since 20. that s nearly a quarter of covid deaths in the u.s. more than 100 countries are
and yellow. let me give you some examples. in the u.s., if you look at cases last week versus the previous week, the u.s. is down 24%. greece, for example, is up 48%, ireland up 40%, austria up 37%. other countries are lower than that, but you can see there s a big difference. one note here, the cdc set up a wastewater surveillance system that we talked about before, and what they re seeing is higher rates of coronavirus in u.s. wastewater. now, we don t know that that s going to translate to higher rates, but it s certainly something being watched, especially what s happening in europe. so these are things that everyone is keeping an eye on. just, you know, a reminder, more than 1,000 americans are dies every day of covid, so this hasn t gone away. the hope is that the u.s. will not follow europe. unfortunately we know often that it does, alisyn, victor? how about this new request