The COVerAGE-DB project has been possible thanks to the generous collaboration of more than 70 researchers from different institutions worldwide. The project has been funded and is hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
The team (so far), alphabetical by last name: José Manuel Aburto, Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez-Gutiérrez, Anna Altová, Ainhoa Alustiza, Ugofilippo Basellini, Simona Bignami, Kirstin Bobrow, Didier Breton, Eungang Choi, Jorge Cimentada, Gonzalo De Armas, Emanuele Del Fava, Alicia Delgado, Viorela Diaconu, Jessica Donzowa, Christian Dudel, Manal K. Elzalabany, Vanessa Sophie Ernst, Antonia Fröhlich, Alain Gagnon, Mariana García Cristómo, Víctor M. García-Guerrero, Armando González-Díaz, Mahmoud Hassan, Irwin Hecker, Dana Jose, Nityanand Jain, Maxi S. Kniffka, Dagnon Eric Koba, Marina Kolobova, Mine Kühn, Mélanie Lépori, Chia Liu, Andrea Lozer, Mădălina Manea, Lilian Marey, Muntasir Masum, Ryohei Mogi, Céline Monicolle, Saskia Morwinsky, Muhammad Muhammad, Ronald Musizvingoza, Mikko Myrskylä, Marília R. Nepomuceno, Michelle Nickel, Natalie Nitsche, Anna Oksuzyan, Samuel Oladele, Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Oluwafunke Omodara, Soumaila Ouedraogo, Mariana Paredes, Marius Pascariu, Manuel Piriz, Raquel Pollero, Larbi Qanni, Federico Rehermann, Filipe Ribeiro, Tim Riffe, Silvia Rizzi, Francisco Rowe, Adil R. Sarhan, Isaac Sasson, Jonas Schöley, Jiaxin Shi, Erez Shomron, Rafael Silva-Ramirez, Cosmo Strozza, Catalina Torres, Sergi Trias-Llimos, Fumiya Uchikoshi, Alyson van Raalte, Paola Vazquez-Castillo, Estevão Vilela, Muhammad Ali Waqar, Iván Williams, Virginia Zarulli.
Directors:
Tim Riffe - Universidad del País Vasco, Ikerbasque (Basque Foudnation for Science), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Enrique Acosta - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Jonas Schöley - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Database Coordinators:
Manal Elzalabany - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Maxi S. Kniffka - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Paper presenting the database:
Riffe Tim, Enrique Acosta, and the COVerAGE-DB Team (2021). “COVerAGE-DB: A Global Database of Age-structured COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.” International Journal of Epidemiology 50(2). doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab027.
When using the data please cite the International Journal of Epidemiology paper also listing the OSF repository, which has a doi:
Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, the COVerAGE-DB team (2021) Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths. International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 390–390f, DOI: doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab027. Data downloaded from [DATE] [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MPWJQ].
The long citation including all coauthors is:
Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, José Manuel Aburto, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Anna Altová, Ainhoa Alustiza, Ugofilippo Basellini, Simona Bignami, Didier Breton, Eungang Choi, Jorge Cimentada, Gonzalo De Armas, Emanuele Del Fava, Alicia Delgado, Viorela Diaconu, Jessica Donzowa, Christian Dudel, Antonia Fröhlich, Alain Gagnon, Mariana Garcia-Crisóstomo, Victor M. Garcia-Guerrero, Armando González-Díaz, Irwin Hecker, Dagnon Eric Koba, Marina Kolobova, Mine Kühn, Mélanie Lépori, Chia Liu, Andrea Lozer, Mădălina Manea, Lilian Marey, Muntasir Masum, Ryohei Mogi, Céline Monicolle, Saskia Morwinsky, Ronald Musizvingoza, Mikko Myrskylä, Marília R. Nepomuceno, Michelle Nickel, Natalie Nitsche, Anna Oksuzyan, Samuel Oladele, Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Oluwafunke Omodara, Soumaila Ouedraogo, Mariana Paredes, Marius D. Pascariu, Manuel Piriz, Raquel Pollero, Larbi Qanni, Federico Rehermann, Filipe Ribeiro, Silvia Rizzi, Francisco Rowe, Adil R. Sarhan, Isaac Sasson, Erez Shomron, Jiaxin Shi, Rafael Silva-Ramirez, Cosmo Strozza, Catalina Torres, Sergi Trias-Llimos, Fumiya Uchikoshi, Alyson van Raalte, Paola Vazquez-Castillo, Estevão A. Vilela, Muhammad Ali Waqar, Iván Williams, Virginia Zarulli (2021) Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths. International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 390–390f, DOI: doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab027. Data downloaded from [DATE] [https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MPWJQ].
We thank all governmental offices for their work in data collection and publication. We thank the whole COVerAGE-DB team of contributors for the hard work searching, collecting, and processing data. We thank the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for the support and the resources. We thank Farolo of Montenegro Studio for the design of the database branding. We thank all users that have reported issues and made methodological suggestions.
For any question or suggestion, please write us to coveragedb@demogr.mpg.de
All scripts for automatic collection, data processing, and statistical modeling are openly available in the GitHub repository of the COVerAGE-DB project: github.com/timriffe/covid_age.
The data provided in COVerAGE-DB does contain artifacts present in the sources. Care must be taken to identify these artifacts before using the data for research. While we do provide data in a standardized format, our data collection can ultimately be only as good as the diverse source material.
Dashboards
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You can find several of the studies that have used COVerAGE-DB data here.