Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Research Guide: News and GW Resources

Breaking News ​

• As U.S. schools reopen, a study finds at least 97,000 children were recently infected, New York Times, August 10, 2020
• Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing, STAT News, August 10, 2020
• US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases, to Europe’s alarm, AP, August 9, 2020
• Promising Covid-19 treatment offers test run for vaccine distribution, CNN, August 7, 2020
• AI invents new ‘recipes’ for potential COVID-19 drugs, Science, August 7, 2020

New Resources

• COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — United States, March–July 2020, MMWR, August 7, 2020
• Pediatric Characteristics of 2019 Novel Coronavirus: Review of Available Published Literature, Clinical Pediatrics, September 2020
• Attacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19, JAMA, August 5, 2020
• The Uncertain Role of Corticosteroids in the Treatment of COVID-19, JAMA Internal Medicine, August 3, 2020
• Emergency Department Visits for Serious Diagnoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Academic Emergency Medicine, August 1, 2020

• CDC COVID-19 Situation Summary page and WHO Situation Reports (updated daily)
• NIAID News Releases - latest drug and vaccine trials news and more.
• CDC Newsroom, including summary of people under investigation (PUI) in the United States and transcripts of CDC telebriefings
• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard Track cases around the world with data from WHO, CDC, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, China's National Health Commission, and ncov.dxy.cn.
• NEJM Journal Watch and Physician First Watch COVID-19 Coverage
• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Situation Reports  Daily global and US updates on epidemiology and response. Sign up for email distribution.
• Kaiser Health News COVID-19 News
• COVID-19 coverage from the Washington Post  (free access)
• The Coronavirus Outbreak from NY Times - free access (requires email registration); maps, breaking news, FAQs
• Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Special Edition coverage from Atypon aggregates content from over 30,000 authoritative sources across the web.

• A Webinar Series on COVID-19 Ethical Concerns, Bioethics Interest Group, GW Milken Institute School of Public Health
• Surviving a Pandemic, a series of COVID-19 episodes of Healthy You: A GWSPH Podcast 
• Emergency Workforce Policies to Address COVID-19, webinar series from the Mullan Institute at GW  "This webinar series will focus on actions that we can take now to avoid entering a vicious cycle of staffing shortages."
• GWU SMHS COVID-19 Virtual Symposium: March 27, 2020: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences linical Public Health Faculty provide a comprehensive exploration of COVID-19 and related issues.
• ​COCA Calls (Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity Office, CDC) - The most up to date information and guidance for clinicians. Join the email list for notification of new webinars.
• COVID-19 Q&A from JAMA Network - On demand video interviews. CME credits
• Public Health On Call podcast (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) - Evidence-based insights on the public health news of the day. The current focus is the novel coronavirus spreading around the world.  Daily podcast available on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and YouTube. 
• Epidemic, a weekly podcast about infectious disease epidemics, hosted by Dr. Celine Gounder and Ronald Klain. On Apple, Google, Spotify and other services.

This guide is a resource for health care and public health professionals. Many resources listed are freely available.  Every attempt is made to keep the list current and complete but the guide is not comprehensive.

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