Epidemiologists launch open-access data platform with 5M+ COVID-19 records

An international group of epidemiologists on Feb. 24 launched an open-access data platform that houses more than 5 million anonymized COVID-19 records from 160 countries.

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The website can be reached at global.health. Each record can contain various information about the case, including data on travel history, demographics, testing and outcomes.

Google provided $1.25 million in funding for the project. It is led by researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston-based Northeastern University, Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard University, Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University, Seattle-based University of Washington and University of Oxford.

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