Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2022 Sep 6;853:158458. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158458

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 1 — Relation between SARS-CoV-2 wastewater signal (advanced by respective “△t” time lag on the x-axis) and A) clinical COVID-19 positive cases/100,000 inhabitants in Ottawa and B) clinical COVID-19 positive cases/100,000 inhabitants in Hamilton, C) hospital admissions/100,000 inhabitants in Ottawa and D) hospitalization admissions/100,000 inhabitants in Hamilton, E) ICU admissions/100,000 inhabitants in Ottawa and F) ICU admissions/100,000 inhabitants in Hamilton, and G) COVID-19 caused deaths/100,000 inhabitants in Ottawa, and H) COVID-19 caused deaths/100,000 inhabitants in Hamilton from Apr. 8th, 2020 to May. 26th, 2022.

*Laboratory positive cases in Ottawa and Hamilton are underreported due to updated PCR eligibility in Ontario as of Dec. 31st, 2021.