COVID-19
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C-MOR – Research Consortium and Platform for Monitoring Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
About us
We are creating a reference dataset focused on mortality resulting from COVID-19. Our project has three core features:
- Open access data
- Global coverage
- A public platform for sharing our analyses
The C-MOR project will help decision-makers identify key insights for the response to this pandemic and future ones.
Partners
Thus far, we have 58 partners across 6 continents.
| Country | Institution |
| Spain | University of Oviedo |
| Sweden | Karolinska Institutet |
| Belgium | European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
| Greece | National School of Public Health |
| Ireland | Health Protection Surveillance Centre |
| UK | St George’s, University of London |
| Imperial College London | |
| Cardiff University | |
| US | University of Texas Medical Branch |
| University of South Carolina | |
| Australia | Deakin University |
| Western Australia Department of Health | |
| Monash University | |
| St John Ambulance Western Australia | |
| Israel | The Israel Center for Disease Control Ministry of Health |
| Lebanon | Lebanese American University |
| Thailand | Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Medicine |
| Brazil | Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Georgia | National Statistics Office of Georgia |
| National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health | |
| Tbilisi State Unversity | |
| Norway | University of Oslo |
| Slovenia | National Institute of Public Health |
| University of Ljubljana | |
| Bahrain | University of Bahrain |
| Kuwait | Kuwait University |
| Guinea | Kofi Annan University of Guinea |
| Bulgaria | Medical University – Sofia |
| France | French School of Public Health |
| Germany | LMU Munich |
| Bhutan | Royal Thimphu College |
| Mongolia | Mongolia National University of Medical Sciences |
| Cameroon | University of Dschang |
| Guyana | American International School of Medicine |
| Italy | University of Perugia |
| Cape Verde | Universidade Jean Piaget de Cabo Verde |
| Sudan | University of Gezira |
| Austria | Medical University of Vienna |
| Uganda | Makerere University |
| Denmark | University of Copenhagen |
| Estonia | National Institute for Health Development |
| Colombia | Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, campus Villavicencio |
| Taiwan | National Taiwan University |
| Mauritius | University of Mauritius |
| Algeria | Bejaia University |
| Université de M’Sila | |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa University |
| Zimbabwe | Great Zimbabwe University |
| Mexico | Monterrey Institute of Technology |
| Kazakhstan | Al-Farabi Kazakh National University |
| Egypt | American University in Cairo |
| Ukraine | National medical university O.O.Bogomolets of Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi and the UAE | Independent |
| Russia | Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia |
| Peru | Universidad del Pacífico |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | University of Sao Tome and Principe |
| Cyprus | University of Nicosia Medical School |
Epidemiological Objectives
- To investigate differences in all-cause and cause-specific mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic and over the same months in the previous 5 years, in selected countries.
- To determine the causes for any net differences in total mortality between the current pandemic period and the same period in previous years, in selected countries.
- To investigate possible underreporting of COVID-19 mortality in selected countries and apply a common way of counting deaths.
- To determine premature mortality as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in selected countries.
- To investigate the long-term mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impact of potential subsequent epidemic waves in selected countries.
Process
As we compile data, our team is working to develop the following plots:
- COVID-19 weekly deaths and mortality rate, by country
- COVID-19 comparative mortality plots in different countries
- COVID-19 cumulative deaths vs new deaths in different countries
- Changes in the rate of dying by COVID-19 in different countries
- COVID-19 Overall Case-Fatality Rate by country
- COVID-19 cases vs deaths in different countries
- Weekly total (all-cause) mortality, by country
- Weekly total (all-cause) mortality over the pandemic as compared to same period in previous years, by country
- Weekly total (all-cause) and cause-specific mortality over the pandemic, by country
How You Can Help
We are actively searching for new partners, particularly in countries where we have no existing partners. We are also seeking individual volunteers, especially those with a computer science background. Please reach out with the form below or by emailing the C-MOR project coordinator at [email protected]
