A research group has built the world’s largest database on political decisions related to the coronavirus pandemic. With CoronaNet data on approximately 50,000 measures taken in 195 countries, some down to the municipal level, can be retrieved and filtered. As a result, the database offers a highly granular basis for governments, researchers and media to analyze the impact of pandemic policies. “CoronaNet is a genuine open science project,” says project leader Luca Messerschmidt of the Chair of International Relations at TUM. Their results showed that not all federal states have had decision making powers comparable to those of Germany’s federal states with regard to pandemic measures.
