Selected COVID-19 Resources

Please note: the below links and feeds absolutely do not represent endorsements, but a sampling of articles and papers that have crossed our desk. In many cases (especially where we have no special expertise), we have no view. In some cases, we actively disagree with the conclusions or quality of one of these sources. In others we find useful information.

We highlight in bold the sources which have proved more useful to us in staying up-to-date on the Covid-19 pandemic more recently.

The articles below are focused more exclusively on the disease, treatment and statistics, and generally exclude discussion of economic impacts.

Data and News Aggregation / Feeds

The Virus Watch (via EVNTL)

NYC Health Syndromic Surveillance Data

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Policy Response

WHO expert: We need more testing to beat coronavirus [New Scientist]

Modelling the Situation of COVID-19 and Effects of Different Containment Strategies in China with Dynamic Differential Equations and Parameters Estimation [Chinese Academy of Sciences] - March 18, 2020

The Transmission Dynamics of SARS-COV-2 in China: Modeling Study and the Impact of Public Health Interventions [Wenbao et al] - March 17, 2020

The Effects of Border Control and Quarantine Measures on Global Spread of COVID-19 [Hossain et al] - March 17, 2020

Ethics of Precaution: Individual and Systemic Risk [Taleb and Norman] - March 15, 2020

The Effectiveness of Quarantine to Control the Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Rapid Review [Nussbaumer-Streit et al] - March 12, 2020

Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [WHO] February 24, 2020

Systemic Risk of Pandemic via Novel Pathogens - Coronavirus: A Note [Taleb et al] - January 26, 2020

The Disease

Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand [Imperial College London] - March 16, 2020

Review of Ferguson et al “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions...” [Academia.edu] - March 17, 2020

High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19 [Wang et al] - March 17, 2020

Medication Patterns and Disease Progression Among 165 Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China: A Single-Centered, Retrospective, Observational Study [Feng et al] - March 17, 2020

COVID-19: Children Comparison with Adults Based on the Latest Data [Yigang et al] - March 13, 2020

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection in Humans: A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis [do Nascimento et al] - March 13, 2020

The Role of Environmental Factors on Transmission Rates of the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Initial Assessment in Two Spatial Scales. [Poirier et al] - March 12, 2020

COVID-19 Science Report: Therapeutics [Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health] - March 12, 2020

Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia [National Health Commission & State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine] - March 3, 2020

A Preliminary Study on the Ultrasonic Manifestations of Peripulmonary Lesions of Non-Critical Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19) [Yi et al] - February 28, 2020

A serological assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in humans [MedRxiv] - March 18, 2020

Total Protein as a Biomarker for Predicting Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia [Haitao et al] - March 17, 2020

Other

COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US [Global Research.ca]