covid-19
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Resources
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern
You cannot fight a fire blindfolded. And we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected.
-Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), 16 March 2020
The COAP database will not be updated after 28th February 2022. We recommend the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 database as an alternative search engine. You can find information on how the databases differ here.
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About
On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization was notified about a cluster of pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan, China. Chinese authorities later identified a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) as the causative agent of the outbreak.
Switzerland confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in February 2020. One year later, the public health emergency of international concern continues. International research has already produced several vaccines and life-saving treatments, but intensive transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has also resulted in new variants that could threaten these gains.
The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern conducts research in the fields of epidemiology, mathematical modelling, phylogenomics and evidence synthesis. We continue to provide information and resources about the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic for scientists, public health experts, journalists, and the public.
Projects
Ongoing
- EpiPose - Epidemic intelligence to minimize 2019-nCoV’s public health, economic and social impact in Europe
- Tracking the COVID-19 epidemic in Switzerland: phylogenetics and epidemiological modeling
- MHCOVID - Mental Health COVID
- Assessing Critical Health Literacy in the Covid-19 pandemic - An empirical study using data from 4 Swiss univeristies (as part of the COVID-19 International Student Well-being Study).
- COVID-19 reports by ISPM 2020
Completed
Publications
See here.
Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force
Several researchers of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine are or have been members of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force that assists the authorities in overcoming the COVID-19 crisis:
- Prof. Dr. Nicola Low, Co-Chair of Expert Group on Public Health
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Egger, previous President
- PD Dr. Christian L. Althaus, previous member of Expert Group on Data and Modelling
Links to other resources
Related to Switzerland
- Situation report, Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force
- Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19, Imperial College
- Temporal variation in transmission during the COVID-19 outbreak, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- COVID-19 Scenarios, University of Basel
- Specialist Unit for Open Government Data Canton of Zurich
- Corona-Data by Daniel Probst
International research groups
- Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
- MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis
- EPIxc lab
- CIDRAP - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- MIDAS 2019 Novel Coronavirus Repository
- CEID Coronavirus Working Group
National and international public health agencies
- Swiss Federal Office for Public Health (FOPH)
- European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Media coverage
Television
- 3sat - nano (2 June 2020): Das Phänomen “Superspreader”
- TeleZüri - TalkTäglich (23 March 2020): Grosser Ansturm auf die Spitäler
- SRF - Club (17 March 2020): Corona - Der Ernstfall
- RTS - Forum (6 March 2020): L’analyse de Julien Riou sur l’évolution du coronavirus en Suisse
- TeleZüri - TalkTäglich (24 February 2020): Kommt das Coronavirus in die Schweiz?
- SRF - Einstein (13 February 2020): Corona-Virus: «Das Potenzial einer Pandemie besteht»
- TeleZüri - TalkTäglich (27 January 2020): Coronavirus auf dem Vormarsch
Information in Spanish
- France 24: Covid-19: Consulta con el Médico
Talk
- WHO/GOARN Global Consultation on Contact Tracing for COVID-19 (7 October 2020): Forwards and backwards: an introduction
Radio/Podcast
- NZZ am Sonntag: Corona-Talk
- SRF - Tagesgespräch (13 March 2020): Corona-Verbreitung verlangsamen, aber wie?
- RTS (27 February 2020): Coronavirus: la propagation s’accélère
- RTS (4 February 2020): La vitesse de propagation du coronavirus
- NPR (3 February 2020): Why The World Cares More About The New Coronavirus Than The Flu
- Neo1 (31 January 2020): Coronavirus: Berner Forscher machen sich ein Bild der Krankheit
- SRF - Echo der Zeit (28 January 2020): Corona-Virus verbreitet sich ähnlich wie Grippe
Print/Online
- Tages-Anzeiger (2 April 2020): «Dann könnten einzelne Geschäfte oder auch Schulen wieder öffnen»
- NZZ (26 February 2020): Experte zum Corona-Ausbruch: «Man muss jetzt nicht die halbe Schweiz unter Quarantäne stellen»
- Le Temps (26 February 2020): Patient zéro, super-propagateur et taux de transmission: le point sur les interrogations actuelles autour de la propagation du coronavirus
- SonntagsZeitung (23 January 2020): Experten-Interview: «Möglicherweise ist das Virus schon in der Schweiz»
- NZZ (14 February 2020): Wann erreicht die Epidemie ihren Höhepunkt?
- Tages-Anzeiger (30 January 2020): Coronavirus in Bayern: «Das sind sehr beunruhigende Nachrichten»
- Tagblatt (28 January 2020): Experte der Uni Bern beurteilt die Lage als beunruhigend: «Diese Epidemie wird uns sicher noch Monate beschäftigen»
- Süddeutsche Zeitung (27 January 2020): Steckbrief einer Seuche
- SonntagsZeitung (26 January 2020): «Die Ansteckungsrate ist mit der Spanischen Grippe vergleichbar»