COVID-19 Outcome Predictions from Wastewater

Forecasting cases, hospitalization and deaths with CDC’s wastewater data. Uses pandas windowing and correlation.

Summary

More than 50,000 wastewater tests across the United States were matched with COVID-19 outcomes (cases, hospitalization, death) from the same location and timeframe. The resulting dataset was analyzed for correlation between SARS-CoV-2 RNA level and the outcomes, showing a positive relationship with all three measures.

Background

In a previous data engineering project, I enhanced the wastewater tests from the …

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