An infoveillance analysis of public interest, national data and wastewater monitoring in Wales, UK

Infoveillance, wastewater and national data.R - The R script used for the analyses and figures present in the manuscript.

SWalesNormqPCRandGT.csv - File containing the data used for this manuscript, including the following columns:

Study Week: The number of weeks into the period used for this study.

WC Date: The date of the first day of each week used for this study.

COVIDCount: The average normalised copy numbers of SARS-CoV-2 across sites and dates in South Wales for each week.

covid symptoms: The relative prevalence of Google searches for the string “covid symptoms’.

covid test: The relative prevalence of Google searches for the string “covid test’.

covid vaccine: The relative prevalence of Google searches for the string “covid vaccine’.

covid rules: The relative prevalence of Google searches for the string “covid rules’.

covid lockdown: The relative prevalence of Google searches for the string “covid lockdown’.

Cases: The number of COVID cases reported by Welsh Government for that week.

Deaths: The number of COVID-related deaths reported by Welsh Government for that week.

Vaccines: The number of COVID vaccines reported by Welsh Government for that week.