Parker, E. 2020. Covid 2019 tracker. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://vac-lshtm.shinyapps.io/ncov_tracker/
Parker, E. Covid 2019 tracker [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2020. Available from: https://vac-lshtm.shinyapps.io/ncov_tracker/
Parker, E (2020). Covid 2019 tracker. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://vac-lshtm.shinyapps.io/ncov_tracker/
Description
In December 2019, cases of severe respiratory illness began to be reported across the city of Wuhan in China. These were caused by a new type of coronavirus, now commonly referred to as Covid-2019. The number of Covid cases started to escalate more quickly in mid-January and the virus soon spread beyond China's borders. This story has been rapidly evolving ever since, and each day we are faced by new, worrying headlines regarding the current state of the outbreak.
In isolation, these headlines can be hard to interpret. How fast is the virus spreading? Are efforts to control the disease working? How does the situation compare with previous epidemics? This site is updated daily based on the number of confirmed cases reported by the WHO. By looking beyond the daily headlines, we hope it is possible to get a deeper understanding of this unfolding epidemic.
Keywords
| Description of data capture | The site is updated daily based on figures published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It uses several sources: WHO daily situation reports of 2019-Covid cases with additional information from the dashboard tool; WHO situation reports 2003-SARS cases; WHO situation reports of 2009-H1N1 confirmed deaths; Model estimates from GLaMOR Project of 2009-H1N1 projected deaths; 2009-H1N1 cases reported by CDC; 2009-H1N1 case fatality rate collected via a systematic review by Wong et al (2009) which identified substantial variation in case fatality rate estimates for the H1N1 pandemic; 2014-Ebola cases collected by CDC; and Country mapping coordinates hosted on Github. |
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| Data capture method | Aggregation |
| Date (Date published in a 3rd party system) | 13 February 2020 |
| Language(s) of written materials | English |
| Data Creators | Parker, E |
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| LSHTM Faculty/Department | Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research |
| Research Centre | Vaccine Centre |
| Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom |
| Date Deposited | 14 Feb 2020 10:03 |
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| Last Modified | 08 Jul 2021 12:50 |
| Publisher | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
