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.

Living systematic review

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.

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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:

International research groups

National and international public health agencies

Media coverage

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Information in Spanish

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