Highlighted Topics-Public Health

This page contains links to sites and webpages that have made information on COVID-19 freely available starting during the year 2020.

You will find maps/gis, policies, clinical trials, articles, search strategies, including sites with pre-formatted strategies with results to aid in getting to the literature quickly. Some are news items, others are articles in reputable journals.

Several vendors such as Elsevier and EBSCO have created specific web pages to get you to recent articles quickly. These sites will contain current articles. Although I was originally posting new articles I have decided to rely more on the vendor sites and search strategies as posting new individual articles here will be difficult to keep up with.

Retraction Watch has been added as a source to help identify poor research and predatory publications.

Suggestions are welcome.

This section includes some resources collecting data and some articles. Please be aware that there will be more published as reporting on all covid-19 topics is ongoing and quickly released.

Resources

Articles and Reports

News and other stories

States seek contact tracers, librarians among candidates.

• Elsevier: Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center

• National Library of Medicine (NLM): NLM’s DisasterLit 

• LitCOVID(also from NLM)-curated literature hub- up to date on coronavirus

• Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA):JAMA Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)

• EBSCO: COVID-19 Updates and Information

• UpToDate: Coronaviruses (UpToDate):
  •  UpToDate Patient Education page on Coronavirus

About providing content:

• Wolters Kluwer Provides Easier Access to Latest Coronavirus Resources & Tools for Front-Line Clinicians and Medical Researchers

  PubMed Central expands content on COVID-19

There are a variety of maps and trackers, each providing something slightly different than another. Some are also more current than others.

• World Health Organization (WHO)

• University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and Northeastern University - animates the spread

• Johns Hopkins University - COVID-19 Global Cases dashboard 

• CDC-United States Locations- use this to link out to particular state's sites.

• Department of Health | Communicable Disease Service | New Jersey COVID-19 DashboardSTAT in collaboration with others: The Covid-19 Tracker 

• Pennsylvania Dept. of Health Covid019 Data

For tools to create specific maps, go to the Library Resources tab. Simply Analytics and Policy Map are 2 of the tools the library subscribes to.

• COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)(SemanticScholar)-includes a list of additional data sources and visualizations.

• COVID-19 Data Hub Stay up to date with the most impactful Coronavirus visualizations from the Tableau Community.

• USAFacts.org: Coronavirus stats & data

• NACCHO Launches New COVID-19 Data Lab (Announcement April 22, 2020)
  • NACCHO Data Lab