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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/69655, first published .
Comparison of Virus Watch COVID-19 Positivity, Incidence, and Hospitalization Rates With Other Surveillance Systems: Surveillance Study

Comparison of Virus Watch COVID-19 Positivity, Incidence, and Hospitalization Rates With Other Surveillance Systems: Surveillance Study

Comparison of Virus Watch COVID-19 Positivity, Incidence, and Hospitalization Rates With Other Surveillance Systems: Surveillance Study

Wing Lam Erica Fong   1 , MSc ;   Vincent Grigori Nguyen   1, 2, 3 , PhD ;   Sarah Beale   1 , PhD ;   Thomas E Byrne   1 , PhD ;   Cyril Geismar   4 , PhD ;   Ellen Fragaszy   1, 5 , PhD ;   Jana Kovar   1 , PhD ;   Alexei Yavlinsky   1 , PhD ;   Ibrahim Abubakar   6 , PhD ;   Andrew C Hayward   2, 7 , MD ;   Robert W Aldridge   1, 8 , PhD

1 Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

2 Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

3 Department of Population, Policy and Practice, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

4 NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling and Health Economics, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

5 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

6 Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

7 NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Health Analytics and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

8 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

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