Global.health is an open access database with over 160 million data points on COVID-19 for consultation.
Since the report of the first COVID-19 outbreaks in Asia and Europe, universities and governments made efforts to create open-access tools for real-time consultation of COVID-19 information and data.
Google and other philanthropic associations funded the Global.health project, which was developed by Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University, John Hopkins University, Oxford University, among other institutions.
As defined on their website, "Global.health is a collaborative effort of technologists and researchers from leading international institutions to create a reliable, detailed and accurate resource of real-time infectious disease data."
Global.health is an open, centralized data resource, and having data verified before it is integrated into the platform to allow researchers and health officials to accelerate the work of creating more effective strategies to contain infections. All data comes from official government sources, whether local, state or federal.
The database can be accessed through the following link: https://data.covid-19.global.health/. The platform offers search filters, such as gender, nationality, occupation, country, among others. The results are displayed as a list, and in some cases it is also possible to consult the date of hospitalization of the patients, the locality where they are located and their age, important data for the health authorities to take the necessary steps and actions.
Global.health also offers data consultation through maps. It shows a table that counts the number of infections in the last 15 days globally and by country. In addition, it offers a regional analysis map, which shows the areas of each country where there have been more cases of COVID-19 and vice versa.
You can access the map through the following link: https://map.covid-19.global.health/
