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. 2020 Nov 3;28(2):393–401. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa287

Table 2.

Partial list of COVID-19 data initiatives

Scale Initiative Resource name Resource URL
Global 4CE Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE) https://transmartfoundation.org/covid-19-community-project/; https://covidclinical.net/
Apple Mobility Apple Mobility Trends Reports https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility
ASM American Society of Microbiology COVID Research Registry https://asm.org/COVID/COVID-19-Research-Registry/Home
C-19RD COVID-19 research database https://covid19researchdatabase.org/
CORD-19 COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge
COVID-19 DDI COVID-19 Data Discovery Index www.covid19dataindex.org
Evidence Accelerator FDA Evidence Accelerator program https://www.focr.org/covid19
Facebook Density Facebook population density https://data.humdata.org/dataset/highresolutionpopulationdensitymaps
Hopkins Resource Center Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
Host Genetics COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative https://www.covid19hg.org
NY Times COVID-19 NY Times COVID-19 Data https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
OHDSI OHDSI study-a-thon https://www.ohdsi.org/covid-19-updates/
Our World in Data Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data
Pandemic Data Room Flattening the curve: COVID-19 Pandemic Data Room Visualization Challenge https://cgdv.github.io/challenges/COVID-19/
R2D2 Reliable Response Data Discovery for clinical COVID-19 consultations using patient observations https://covid19questions.org
SECURE-IBD Surveillance, Epidemiology of Coronavirus (COVID-19) under research exclusion https://covidibd.org/
TrinetX TriNetX network https://www.trinetx.com/coronavirus/
Worldometer Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
National ACT ACT Network COVID-19: Developing COVID-19 phenotype and ontology https://www.amia.org/sites/default/files/AMIA-COVID19-Webinar-Series-ACT-Network-CRI-2.pdf
ACTIV ACTIV (Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines): NIH clinical trials network for COVID vaccines testing https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ
BEAT19 Behavior, Environment and Treatments for Covid-19 (BEAT19) https://github.com/beat19-org/beat19-public-data
C19HCC COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition (C19HCC) https://mcovid.org/
C3I Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) + COVID https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/c3icovidsmoking/grantee-resources
CCC19 COVID Cancer Consortium (CCC19) https://ccc19.org/
CIVET North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) Corona Infectious Virus Epidemiology Team (CIVET) https://naaccord.org/covid-19
COVID Tracking The COVID Tracking Project https://covidtracking.com/
CovidCP CovidCP clinical trials registry
eMERGE eMERGE network to support COVID research https://emerge-network.org
HD4Action RWJF Health Data 4 Action COVID-19 Registry (with AcademyHealth, Health Care Cost Institute, CareJourney, and numerous health systems) https://www.academyhealth.org/blog/2020-04/new-initiative-aims-build-model-open-covid-19-patient-data-registry-network
N3C N3C (National COVID Cohort Collaborative): building a nationwide COVID-19 cohort through informatics covid.cd2h.org/N3C
NHSN CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) COVID-19 module https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/acute-care-hospital/covid19/index.html
Optum Optum https://www.optum.com/campaign/ls-cb/covid-19-data-dashboard.html
PCORNet PCORNet Mini/Thin CDM: Stand-alone, ancillary COVID-19 version of the CDM https://pcornet.org/news/pcornet-covid-19-common-data-model-launched-enabling-rapid-capture-of-insights/
SCCM Society of Critical Care Medicine: Discovery VIRUS COVID-19 registry https://www.sccm.org/Research/Research/Discovery-Research-Network/VIRUS-COVID-19-Registry
Sentinel FDA Sentinel https://www.sentinelinitiative.org/drugs/fda-sentinel-system-coronavirus-covid-19-activities
SPHERES CDC's SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing for public health emergency response, epidemiology, and surveillance https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/spheres.html
US Mobility Data US Mobility data https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc501xfAzEPADOwRmsdHmu-v8aN14jnKHBmEmdJJcTgRLddqw/viewform
Regional CRISP COVID-CRISP registry—diagnostic tests https://www.crisphealth.org/guidance/providers/