In this paper, the confirmed Case Fatality Rate (cCFR), and the confirmed Case Recovery Rate (cCRR) are considered as the main performance criteria, and the data are analyzed utilizing statistical confidence intervals (CIs) implemented in Python. | Fight against COVID-19 A global outbreak response management performance view Journal of Project Management 5 2020 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Fight against COVID-19 A global outbreak response management perfor- mance view Javid Jouzdania a Department of Industrial Engineering Golpayegan University of Technology Golpayegan Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Outbreak response can be viewed as a project for which the window of opportunity for plan- Received March 6 2020 ning is often quite limited. Therefore regular evaluation for sharing the lessons learned is Received in revised format crucial especially in the cases of national and global crises. As one of the major global March 7 2020 concerns the novel coronavirus also known as COVID-19 has infected and killed many Accepted March 8 2020 Available online people in several countries worldwide. Hence it is worth analyzing the performance of dif- March 8 2020 ferent countries in this regard. In this paper the confirmed Case Fatality Rate cCFR and Keywords the confirmed Case Recovery Rate cCRR are considered as the main performance criteria COVID-19 and the data are analyzed utilizing statistical confidence intervals CIs implemented in Py- Outbreak Response Management thon. The results identify the regions with high cCFR and low cCRR as well as the regions Statistical Data Analysis with low cCFR and high cCRR. Finally it is suggested to systematically transfer the knowledge and lessons learned from the high performing countries to where such infor- mation and knowledge is needed. 2020 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Human societies have always been subject to disasters. One of the most impacting is the outbreaks from the plague in 541 Rosen 2010 to the recent Coronavirus Disease outbreak in 2019 Velavan amp Meyer 2020 known as COVID-19. Other viruses of this kind had already infected and killed many .
