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

Breaking News ​

• New coronavirus variants could challenge vaccine efforts, New York Times, January 21, 2021
• Biden inauguration marks shift in scattered COVID-19 response, The Hill, January 20, 2021
• Here’s the letter Amazon sent President Biden offering to help with Covid-19 vaccinations, STAT News, January 20, 2021
• California will resume using questioned doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Los Angeles, January 20, 2021
• What we now know — and don’t know — about the coronavirus variants, STAT News, January 19, 2021

New Resources

• Characteristics, Outcomes, and Trends of Patients With COVID-19–Related Critical Illness at a Learning Health System in the United States, Annals of Internal Medicine, January 19, 2021
• SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2 escapes neutralization by South African COVID-19 donor plasma, bioRxiv, January 18, 2021
• mRNA vaccine-elicited antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and circulating variants, bioRxiv, January 15, 2021
• Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage — United States, December 29, 2020–January 12, 2021, MMWR, January 15, 2021
• Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Hospitalized Women Giving Birth With and Without COVID-19, JAMA Network, January 15, 2021

• CDC COVID-19 Situation Summary, CDC Newsroom, COVID-19 Science Updates, and COVIDView
• WHO Situation Reports (updated weekly)
• NIAID News Releases - latest drug and vaccine trials news and more.
• 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, FAQ

• 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."
• ​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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