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COVeAGE-DB: A database of age-structured COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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| medRxiv
| ID: ppmedrxiv-20197228
ABSTRACT
COVerAGE-DB is an open-access database including cumulative counts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, deaths, and tests by age and sex. The main goal of COVerAGE-DB is to provide a centralized, standardized, age-harmonized, and fully reproducible database of COVID-19 data. Original data and sources are provided alongside data and measures in age-harmonized formats. An international team, composed of more than 60 researchers, contributed to the collection of data and metadata in COVerAGE-DB from governmental institutions, as well as to the design and implementation of the data processing and validation pipeline. The database is still in development, and at this writing, it includes 89 countries, and 237 subnational areas. Cumulative counts of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and tests are recorded daily (when possible) since January 2020. Many time series thus fully capture the first pandemic wave and the beginning of later waves. Since collection efforts began for COVerAGE-DB several studies have used the data.
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English
Year:
2020
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