Background: The first signal of a new infection is often severe cases presenting at hospital. Enhanced surveillance of these cases is critical to learning more about disease epidemiology and patient outcomes, but nationallevel surveillance can lack power to draw conclusions. In response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the Influenza-Monitoring Vaccine Effectiveness (I-MOVE) network, founded in 2007, expanded to ...
Background: The I-MOVE-COVID-19 Consortium was established to conduct surveillance of hospitalised COVID-19 cases in nine European countries, aiming to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of severe COVID-19 in order to inform public health response. Methods: Data are pooled from 11 participating sites; two (England and Scotland) submitting national data, with the remainder being from a sel...