Fig. 3.

Summary of correlations between socioeconomic status parameters and wastewater viral concentrations within the 8 city locations. Heat table represents associations between all eight cities' socioeconomic parameters and municipal wastewater E, N1, and N2 gene concentrations from August 1, 2020 to January 21, 2021. All wastewater concentrations in gene copies per liter (GC/L). Spearman and Kendall correlation analyses were performed for each comparison to indicate respective p-values. SES parameters with a significant wastewater concentration association (p-values less than or equal to 0.05 and/or 0.10) are denoted with a positive or negative correlation coefficient in parenthesis and exact p-values are emphasized within table in bold. A positive coefficient value indicates a positive association while a negative coefficient indicates a negative association.