HIT-COVID, a global database tracking public health interventions to COVID-19.
Sci Data
; 7(1): 286, 2020 08 27.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-733507
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unprecedented public health and social measures (PHSM) by national and local governments, including border restrictions, school closures, mandatory facemask use and stay at home orders. Quantifying the effectiveness of these interventions in reducing disease transmission is key to rational policy making in response to the current and future pandemics. In order to estimate the effectiveness of these interventions, detailed descriptions of their timelines, scale and scope are needed. The Health Intervention Tracking for COVID-19 (HIT-COVID) is a curated and standardized global database that catalogues the implementation and relaxation of COVID-19 related PHSM. With a team of over 200 volunteer contributors, we assembled policy timelines for a range of key PHSM aimed at reducing COVID-19 risk for the national and first administrative levels (e.g. provinces and states) globally, including details such as the degree of implementation and targeted populations. We continue to maintain and adapt this database to the changing COVID-19 landscape so it can serve as a resource for researchers and policymakers alike.
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Communicable Disease Control
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Databases, Factual
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Data
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S41597-020-00610-2
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