Trying to make sense of coronavirus COVID-19? News, data, and government sources
I like these Canadian reporters, Branswell (and Belluz, who is on maternity leave) They consistently link to a other good sources.
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Helen Branswell -- of Stat (news site)This reporter tweets on infectious diseases. This is a Twitter feed, but I recommend Stat, at statnews.com.
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Andy SlavittThis is a Twitter feed.
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Commentary on CDC 's "COVIDview"Key Updates" on the epidemicComments by former CDC director Tom Frieden on the CDC's weekly report.
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Michael Osterholm -- CIDRAP audio reportsCIDRAP has been an important research center for emerging infectious disease.
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CIDRAP's COVID-19 mapsLots of interesting maps. I especially have seen a lot of recommendations of the Johns Hopkins website (black and red map above).
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Chapel HIll has the best library guide on this thing.In addition to research links, UNC's guide has lots of NC links and links to practical sites.
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Duke's guide is very useful.But many of Duke's links require Duke log in, even though most of these resources are free now. Search on product name, or ask me for help accessing (wiswellj@appstate.edu).
See Duke's search strategies.
CDC and other government agencies
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MMWR -- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportThis is the CDC's weekly report. This link shows their series of Covid-19 reports.
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Emerging Infectious Disease (EID)a CDC journal
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AppHealthCare -- Follow link for latestfor Watauga and northwestern NC
Research -- Where to start
You will still probably want to start with PubMed. But see LitCoVid version, link just below.
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LitCoVid -- Access PubMed's latest SARS-CoV-2 researchTry out this temporary PubMed interface that focuses on Covid-19. These are all peer-reviewed, I think, so it's missing the pre-print literature. See Dimensions and Semantic Scholar links below.
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Dimensions searchSearch on string in title/abstracts: “covid-19” OR “2019-ncov” OR “sars-cov-2”
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PubMed's trending articlesMany of PubMed's trending articles right now (c. 5/21/2020) are on this disease.
It might be useful to change this sorting to "Most recent."
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Nature's news on Covid-19See also their link to latest research in Springer Nature journals,
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CORD-19 -- COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (Semantic Scholar)A free resource of over 128,000 scholarly articles (5/22/2020), including over 29,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community. Machine readable. This includes a lot of preprints, not yet peer-reviewed.
Note -- These are not the best links for full text access to content other than for coronavirus Covid-19. These publishers are offering Covid-19 landing pages and making all content free.
Datrmouth Atlas; Point of care resources; Translational resources
Dartmouth Atlas Project -- Mapping COVID-19
This "translational" website looks useful (by Indiana U./Purdue/Notre Dame):
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Cochrane LibraryClick on "Cochrane Library," in upper left.
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Up To Date Covid-19Clinical Effectiveness COVID-19 Resources Available to All
Recent overviews -- Where we stand; Information literacy and the coronavirus.
Interview with John Barry, historian of the 1918-1919 flu, by Sean Illing, Vox (news). 2020. “The Most Important Lesson of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Tell the Damn Truth.”
Information Literacy and the information chaos around Covid-19
SIFTing through the coronavirus pandemic -- Mike Caulfield's good information habits
Note that the first practice is to STOP. Slow down. (Let the emotion flow away.)
Also see our library presentation, Combatting Covid-19 Misinformation and Disinformation, video and slides.
Health Science Librarians -- Readings recommended by Dean Giustini. Also see his Coronavirus 2019 Wiki (and his Twitter feed).
Ashrafi-rizi, Hasan, and Zahra Kazempour. 2020. “Information Typology in Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis; a Commentary.” Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine 8 (1). https://doi.org/10.22037/aaem.v8i1.591.
Naeem, Salman Bin, and Rubina Bhatti. 2020. “The Covid-19 ‘Infodemic’: A New Front for Information Professionals.” Health Information & Libraries Journal n/a (n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12311.
Shokraneh, Farhad. 2020. “Keeping up with Studies on Covid-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources.” BMJ 369 (April). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1601.
Shokraneh, Farhad, and Tony Russell-Rose. 2020. “Lessons from COVID-19 to Future Evidence Synthesis Efforts: First Living Search Strategy and out of Date Scientific Publishing and Indexing Industry.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, April. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.04.014.
Summer and Fall 2020
Quick links to: PubMed CINAHL PsycINFO SPORTDiscus Web of Science Google Scholar
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