Editor’s note: This is a list of selected resources on the novel coronavirus (formerly known as as 2019 n-CoV, now known as SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 disease. The list spans everything from official sources, trackers, and data sites to medical journal information hubs, background readings, and Twitter accounts. If you have suggestions for what to add here (please note, the list is not crowdsourced but carefully curated), please email sonal [at] a16z [dot] com.
official sources
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department)
- cases in the U.S.
- information for businesses, schools, and communities
- travel FAQs
- information for laboratories
WHO (World Health Organization)
- situation reports (now posted daily)
state/local resources (from the states with early community spread)
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trackers & data visualizations
Worldometer
[more on who they are]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Johns Hopkins CSSE
Center for Systems Science and Engineering at John Hopkins University
[see also: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu]
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
phylogeny of the viruses around the world and over time
can filter by location, see sequences to see how closely related viruses are
https://nextstrain.org/ncov
https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/next-hcov-19-app/
map of reported cases from the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
COVID-19 tracker by journalists from the Atlantic and others
collects information from all 50 U.S. states and D.C. to provide comprehensive public data on state-level testing
[more on who and on their methodology]
http://covidtracking.com/
COVID-19 test capacity tracking from AEI
from the American Enterprise Institute [about/funding sources]
https://twitter.com/COVID2019tests
doubling time from Our World in Data
[based on data from WHO, more about them]
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
summary data at a glance
[data from official sources, dashboard built by highschooler]
https://ncov2019.live/data
cancelled events
[from editor at the Verge; see context at bottom (see also The Verge, The Atlantic on the topic)]
https://www.isitcanceledyet.com/
lists & data sites
cluster of related topics on knowledge engine Golden
includes lists/updates of potential treatments, vaccine development activity, screenings, & related materials [about]
https://golden.com/wiki/Cluster%3A_COVID-19-ZXJX9AR
nucleotide sequences, SRA sequences, reference genome
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sars-cov-2-seqs/
GenBank sequence data
search, retrieve, and analyze SARS-CoV-2 data [more about GenBank (from National Library of Medicine NCBI Virus)]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType_s=Nucleotide&VirusLineage_ss=Wuhan%20seafood%20market%20pneumonia%20virus,%20taxid:2697049
list of clinical studies
[these are their search terms; includes appropriate synonyms]
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=%22wuhan+coronavirus%22
paper sites + medical journal hubs
LitCovid
curated, comprehensive hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information from the National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information (provides access to research articles in PubMed)
[old link we had on this list of their search terms for PubMed/Medline is here]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
articles in the Public Health Genomics and Precision Health Knowledge Base
selected by the Office of Public Health Genomics just to provide current awareness of the literature and news
https://phgkb.cdc.gov/PHGKB/phgHome.action?query=Coronavirus&action=search&Mysubmit=Search
NEJM
New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus
JAMA
Journal of the American Medical Association
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/coronavirus-alert
Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus
Elsevier
(publisher of The Lancet among several other journals)
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center
Nature
Nature Publishing Group
https://www.nature.com/subjects/sars-virus
recommended agency & media hubs
National Library of Medicine (from the National Institutes of Health)
coronavirus disease resources & information
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/index.html#Novel_Coronavirus
FDA
updates from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration including approvals and authorizations
https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19
Stat News (from The Boston Globe)
free coverage outside paywall as well as weekday recap newsletters
[fund/support here]
https://www.statnews.com/tag/coronavirus/
system preparedness
on hospital preparedness
Eric Toner & Richard Waldhorn, John Hopkins Center for Health Security Clinicians’ Biosecurity News, February 27, 2020
“What U.S. hospitals should do now to prepare for a COVID-19 pandemic”
on country-based mitigation measures, defining factors, and unknowns with this epidemic
Roy Anderson, Hans Heesterbeek, Don Klinkenberg, T Déirdre Hollingsworth, Lancet, March 9, 2020
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30567-5/fulltext
on ‘flattening the curve’
Helen Branswell, Stat, March 11, 2020
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/11/flattening-curve-coronavirus/
see also: The Economist, New York Times
annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies
Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, WHO, September 19, 2019
https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf
community mitigation guidelines to prevent pandemics
CDC, et al, April 21, 2017
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/rr/rr6601a1.htm#_blank
company plans & remote working strategies
these are from companies sharing their own plans and strategies, culled here (without including our own recommendations or commentary on them):
proactive steps for employers to take
Cooley (law firm)
https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2020/2020-03-06-proactive-steps-for-employers-to-take-in-coronavirus-covid19-outbreak
adapting the way we work when offices need to close
Slack on Slack
https://slackhq.com/managing-remote-work-in-slack
planning and response
Coinbase blog on Medium [from a Google doc first shared by CEO]
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-planning-and-response-to-covid-2019-d0cb3379bc3e
sharing our remote first processes, tools, and guidelines
Super Evil Megacorp
https://www.superevilmegacorp.com/blog/2020/3/4/sharing-our-remote-first-processes-tools-and-guidelines-for-fellow-corona-dodgers
readings on global supply chain impact:
- “All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech” (Verge)
- “Retailers feel impact of coronavirus on non-US suppliers” (Berkeley Research Group)
- “How coronavirus will affect the global supply chain” Q&A (JHU)
- “Coronavirus is proving we need more resilient supply chains” (HBR)
- SARS’ effect on Alibaba in 2003 (Digital Commerce 360)
other background readings
on comparing coronavirus to the flu
Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, February 8, 2020
“the whataboutism of infectious disease is as dangerous as it is hackneyed”
on understanding R0, what it does and doesn’t tell us
Ed Yong, The Atlantic, January 28, 2020
“The deceptively simple number sparking coronavirus fears”
on understanding definitions of pandemics, etc.
Helen Branswell (with additional reporting by Andrew Joseph), STAT, February 12, 2020
“Understanding pandemics: What they mean, don’t mean, and what comes next with the coronavirus”
countering the misinfodemic
myth busters
advice for the public from the World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters
how to sift through misinformation during an infodemic
OneZero on Medium [see also: “sifting through the epidemic”]
https://onezero.medium.com/the-simplest-way-to-spot-coronavirus-misinformation-on-social-media-4b7995448071
fact checking memes & misinformation
https://www.snopes.com/collections/coronavirus-collection-memes/
fact checking government responses
investigates rumors about how governments and organizations around the world have responded to the crisis
https://www.snopes.com/collections/coronavirus-government-role/
Twitter accounts
high signal-to-noise accounts from those immersed in specific aspects (with links to backgrounds for more information about their credentials, affiliations/funding sources, etc.)
journalists
@helenbranswell – Helen Branswell
@kakape – Kai Kupferschmidt
@sciencecohen – Jon Cohen
agencies & institutions
@cdcdirector – Robert Redfield
@drnancym_cdc – Nancy Messonnier
@drtedros – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
@uwvirology – University of Washington Department of Virology
@jhsph_chs – Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
@lshtm – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
topical experts (including lab affiliations/researchers)
@mlipsitch – Marc Lipsitch
@cmyeaton – Caitlin Rivers
@t_inglesby – Tom Inglesby
@trvb – Trevor Bedford
@k_g_andersen – Kristian Andersen
@florian_krammer – Florian Krammer
@p_openshaw – Peter Openshaw
@arimoin – Anne Rimoin
@michaelmina_lab – Michael Mina
@jennifernuzzo – Jennifer Nuzzo
@krutikakuppalli – Krutika Kuppalli
@angie_rasmussen – Angela Rasmussen
@rozeggo – Rosalind Eggo
other
@scottgottliebmd – Scott Gottlieb
@maiamajder – Maia Majumder
@ameshaa – Amesh Adalja
We’ve also been covering the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 disease on our news show, 16 Minutes, here.
Thanks also to Jorge Conde, Nate Chang, Judy Savitskaya, Andy Tran, and Julie Yoo for their contributions to some of the above as well!
image: CDC
