Population-based prospective COVID-19 cohort study Munich, Germany
Initiatives
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To gain knowledge about the immune status of the population and to better understand the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic and to thus appropriately design and evaluate interventions.
- Start Year
- 2020
- Funding
- Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art, the LMU Klinikum München and Helmholtz Zentrum München.
- Supplementary Information
- http://www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/Abteilung-fuer-Infektions-und-Tropenmedizin/en/COVID-19/KoCo19/index.html
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- For twelve months, each household member is asked to keep a diary of daily symptoms. For one year, the study teams re-visits the households for blood sampling every six weeks.
Marker Paper
Radon K, Saathoff E, Pritsch M, et al. Protocol of a population-based prospective COVID-19 cohort study Munich, Germany (KoCo19) [published correction appears in BMC Public Health. 2020 Sep 1;20(1):1335]. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):1036. Published 2020 Jun 30. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09164-9
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Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 3,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Munich households.Aged over 14 years old
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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