COVID-19: Hospitalizations vs. Wastewater Signal

Weekly COVID-19 hospital admissions against the national wastewater RNA signal, both indexed to a common base week so two differently-scaled measures share one axis honestly. See hospitalizations and the wastewater signal for the real, unindexed series. Dashed lines mark four points in the pandemic timeline. Hospitalization reporting for this series ends April 2024; the wastewater signal runs through the present.