Retrieve the latest California wastewater surveillance from CDC and state public datasets. Check site-level COVID activity and weekly direction, or compare available pathogen concentrations across the state or a configured county region, with dates and sources for verification.
Pull California population-level pathogen surveillance from CDC NWSS and CDPH/CHHS Open Data — SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A/B, RSV, Mpox, Norovirus, H5, Candida auris from CA wastewater plants, statewide or for a configured region. Intents: GetCovidData (CDC viral activity level per site, week-over-week trend), GetWastewaterData (multi-pathogen panel). Leads clinical 4-7 days. USE WHEN wastewater, California COVID, viral load, COVID status, COVID levels near me, flu data, RSV, pathogen tracking, outbreak monitoring. NOT FOR national or non-CA surveillance.
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See how to installThis skill retrieves pathogen information from California wastewater samples using the CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System and public data from the California Department of Public Health. For COVID, it shows activity levels by treatment site and the direction of change from the previous week. It also covers influenza A and B, RSV, and other pathogens included in state data. Available concentrations and detections can be reviewed together. Results identify the pathogen, geography, data date, and source.
Use it to check California trends before travel or an event, see weekly changes in COVID activity, or review flu, RSV, and other available pathogens together. When a region is configured, you can check its data as well as statewide results.
The skill covers public data for California only; it does not provide national or out-of-state surveillance. If no region is specified, results cover the state. Public datasets have different update schedules, so results are not real-time. Check the week or sample date shown with each figure.
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Pulls California population-level pathogen surveillance from two public sources: CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System (a viral activity level per treatment plant for SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A and RSV) and CDPH's sample-level data on the CHHS Open Data Portal (concentrations for every pathogen target CDPH tests). Answers cover California statewide and, when configured, one region of counties.
Clinical case counts miss asymptomatic, unreported and untested infections and trail community spread by days. Wastewater catches everything that enters the sewer regardless of testing behavior, so it leads clinical signals by 4–7 days. Both sources publish on their own schedules; this skill pulls the latest figures each run and turns them into a level and trend you can act on before booking travel or an event.
Tools/Wastewater.ts, with the dataset named so the value can be checked.| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| GetCovidData | "COVID numbers", "COVID status", "COVID data", viral load, activity level, trend before events/travel; default when ambiguous | Intents/GetCovidData.md |
| GetWastewaterData | "wastewater", "respiratory viruses", "flu", "RSV", "norovirus", multi-pathogen panel | Intents/GetWastewaterData.md |
| File | Read when |
|---|---|
Tools/Wastewater.help.md | flags, exit codes, what each command reads |
Setup.md | first-time setup, the region config, the proof command |
First-time setup, accounts and a proof command: Setup.md.
~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/WastewaterCA/Config.md (or the file WASTEWATER_CONFIG names) holds - region:, - counties: as Name FIPS pairs, and an optional - rpho region: for the clinical layer. bun skills/WastewaterCA/Tools/Wastewater.ts config prints what a run resolves to.06xxx FIPS code stops the run with exit 2 rather than silently going statewide.county_names holds codes such as 06067; CDC counties_served holds names. Config.md carries both so each source is matched on its own field.wastewater.csv from the Respiratory Virus Weekly Report is reading year-old data.Example 1: COVID before travel
User: "What are the COVID numbers before my trip?"
→ GetCovidData intent
→ Wastewater.ts covid, then covid --statewide: the week ending date, sites reporting, how many at each CDC level,
the median site WVAL and its week-over-week direction, region and state side by side
Example 2: Multi-pathogen panel
User: "How are flu and RSV looking in wastewater?"
→ GetWastewaterData intent
→ Wastewater.ts panel: one row per pathogen target with its data date, geography, two-week level against the
12-month range, trend and sample count
Example 3: Local view with the clinical layer
User: "Is flu actually up around here?"
→ GetWastewaterData intent, with Wastewater.ts covid --pathogen flu and the CHHS dashboard rows for the configured rpho region
→ The regional panel, per-site CDC flu levels, and regional test positivity
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