COVID-19:
Best online articles, websites and videos I have encountered
Harry Forsdick
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020
[Note] I am having trouble keeping up with all of the good material coming my way about the C-19 pandemic. I'm not sure what to do about this. But I just thought I need to let readers know that exponential growth doesn't seem to be limited to the growth of the C-19 pandemic -- information about the pandemic seems to be growing very fast also. And we all know how keeping up with an exponential is very hard to do...
Here is a summary of the best articles or websites I have encountered. You may have already seen/read these, but in case you haven't, here they are. I am keeping this up to date by listing them in the reverse order that I enter them into this list. I will update the date above when I last updated the list and separate each batch with its date.
Here is a summary of the best articles or websites I have encountered. You may have already seen/read these, but in case you haven't, here they are. I am keeping this up to date by listing them in the reverse order that I enter them into this list. I will update the date above when I last updated the list and separate each batch with its date.
The Complete List Including the Best of the Best (marked in Red)
05/22/2020
- Practical advice about how to deal with the spreading of CV-19: (recommended by Tom Fortmann and Steve Kolek)
Here are two articles with the latest information (as of the middle of May 2020) about how the CV-19 spreads
The Risks: Know Them, Avoid Them
Flying in the age of COVID-19
04/25/2020
- Youtube: How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19: (recommended by Tom Fortmann)
This is an excellent discussion about graphs of exponential data and how to recognize when exponential growth is starting to decline. After watching it see the next link below for the actual COVID-19 data.
How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19 - COVID Trends (recommended by Tom Fortmann)
A website with an animation of the growth of C-19 confirmed cases and deaths over time; for an explanation of this log-log graph and animation, see the link immediately above.
https://aatishb.com/covidtrends - Youtube: Experiments with toy SIR models (recommended by Bruce Laird)
A great set of simulation experiments about the impact of various human reactions to C-19 social distancing efforts. This is long, but insightful. Worth you time investment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs&feature=youtu.be
04/10/2020
- The Economist: (recommended by Tom Fortmann)
The hard choices covid policymakers face: Epidemiological models are among their only guides. This is an excellent explanation of what goes into epidemiological modeling.
The hard choices covid policymakers face - The New York Times: (recommended by Tom Fortmann)
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
04/02/2020
- Healthdata.org (recommended by Tom Fortmann)
An excellent interactive site reporting projections for COVID-19 metrics for both the entire US as well as by state.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
03/27/2020
- medium.com (recommended by Tomasso Fortmann)
Coronavirus: Why it’s so deadly in Italy
https://medium.com/@andreasbackhausab/coronavirus-why-its-so-deadly-in-italy-c4200a15a7bf - YouTube
Shop Safer and Take Out Food Safer: Dr. Jeffery VanWingen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-RIOXD2gjc
03/26/2020
- datausa.io
Explore, map, compare, and download data about the USA, States, Cities and Towns
• https://datausa.io/
• https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lexington-ma
- vox.com
The Vox guide to Covid-19 coronavirus. An excellent info-graphic heavy presentation of lots of facts about COVID-19 pandemic.
The Vox guide to Covid-19 coronavirus - telegraph.co.uk
Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? The country's high death toll is due to an ageing population, overstretched health system and the way fatalities are reported.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/
03/18/2020
- Washington Post
Why Outbreaks like Coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to flatten the curve. This is an excellent article containing animations of simulations showing what the various processes are in an epidemic and how social distancing can break the exponential growth of the disease.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/
03/17/2020
- WorldOMeters.info
COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK This is a comprehensive set of statistics about the World-wide COVID-19 pandemic. The second URL below focuses on the USA. Scroll down to see excellent graphs of the trends.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
03/16/2020
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: Black plague, Spanish flu, smallpox: All hold lessons for coronavirus (recommended by Ed Walker)
http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=946851&f=24688&s=46345&m=2650412&t=ea2f448966dd9bf085083b43084b3da176d00d5c185514ff465f51d1e38c231a - World Health Organization
Mental Health Considerations during COVID-19 Outbreak
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/mental-health-considerations.pdf?sfvrsn=6d3578af_2 - CDC
Manage Anxiety & Stress
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/managing-stress-anxiety.html
03/14/2020
- Partners.org
A Coordinated Boston-wide Response to COVID-19: MGH Medical Grand Rounds March 12, 2020 (recommended by Steve Cohn)
https://externalmediasite.partners.org/Mediasite/Play/45a9a74f18ec45deb338e0
0ac4cf4e281d
03/12/2020
And finally,
If you have other articles or websites that you think are particularly good, please let me ([email protected]) know about them.
- CDC
COVID-19 Symptoms
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/symptoms.html - CDC
COVID-19 -- What you need to know
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/2019-ncov-factsheet.pdf - CDC
COVID-19 -- What to do if you are sick
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/sick-with-2019-nCoV-fact-sheet.pdf - Futureism.com
Keeping your hands clean: Explains why soap & water is the best way to keep your hands clean
https://futurism.com/neoscope/soap-water-best-hand-sanitizer-coronavirus - YouTube.com
Interview with Michael Osterholm, a distinguished professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. This is a long video, but an excellent, sober discussion of what is likely to unfold. Watch as much as you can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
- Johns Hopkins
A current graphical view of the COVID-19 pandemic
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html - Stat News
7 reasons why it’s hard to control your coronavirus anxiety
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/12/why-coronavirus-anxiety-hard-to-control/ - Medium.com
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca - The Atlantic
Cancel Everything
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-cancel-everything/607675/
And finally,
If you have other articles or websites that you think are particularly good, please let me ([email protected]) know about them.