Aggregated hosptial admissions for 122 wastewater treatmant plant catchment areas in Scotland

Data used in "The impact of signal variability on epidemic growth rate estimation from wastewater surveillance data" https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.07.23286904v1Daily number of people admitted to hosptal with COVID-19 as primary cause from to 01/05/2021 to 02/09/2022. Data were aggregated first to datazones (using the postcode of the patient's place of residence as the geographical identifier), and then to wastewater tratement plant (WWTP) catchment areas. Since there is some overlap between datazones and WWTP catchemnts, it is not always possible to know which WWTP catchment a patient belongs to - in such cases their admission is divided between the two catchments proportionally to the amount of overlap. This is why numbers are fractional.For anonymisation purposes, numbers that are non-zero and less than 5 are not presented. Instead the data gives "<5"