Publication date: Sep 21, 2023
In Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a system of three data sources has been established to track the Covid-19 pandemic. These sources are the number of Covid-19-related hospitalizations, the Covid-19 genecopies in wastewater, and the prevalence derived from a cohort study. This paper presents an extensive comparison of these parameters. It is investigated whether wastewater data and a cohort study can be valid surrogate parameters for the number of hospitalizations and thus serve as predictors for coming Covid-19 waves. We observe that this is possible in general for the cohort study prevalence, while the wastewater data suffer from a too large variability to make quantitative predictions by a purely data-driven approach. However, the wastewater data as well as the cohort study prevalence are able to detect hospitalizations waves in a qualitative manner. Furthermore, a detailed comparison of different normalization techniques of wastewater data is provided.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Cdc_ueberblick | Cohort |
| German | Covid |
| Inexpensive | Doi |
| Mathematics | Genecopies |
| Hospitalizations | |
| Https | |
| Medrxiv | |
| Org | |
| Palatinate | |
| Parameters | |
| Preprint | |
| Prevalence | |
| Rhineland | |
| Values | |
| Wastewater |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Covid-19 |
| disease | VO | Viruses |
| disease | VO | USA |
| disease | VO | population |
| disease | MESH | infection |
| disease | VO | organization |
| disease | VO | protocol |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Water |
| disease | VO | volume |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Oxygen |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Activated charcoal |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Medical air |
| disease | IDO | facility |
| disease | MESH | uncertainty |
| disease | VO | time |
| disease | IDO | process |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Gold |
| disease | MESH | respiratory diseases |
| disease | MESH | influenza |
| disease | VO | gene |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Cysteamine |
| disease | MESH | Hepatitis |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Ademetionine |
| disease | MESH | Viral Diseases |
| disease | VO | NadA |
| disease | MESH | Water Quality |