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

Breaking News ​

• A Year Into Pandemic, Federal Officials Design New Mask Guidelines to Better Protect More Workers, KHN, April 14, 2021
• Why Biden health officials decided to pause J&J’s coronavirus vaccine, Washington Post, April 13, 2021
• Why would a Covid vaccine cause rare blood clots? Researchers have found clues, STAT News, April 13, 2021
• Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine, FDA Press Release, April 13, 2021
• U.S. cases involving Brazil variant on the rise, according to CDC data, The Washington Post, April 9, 2021

New Resources

• Analysis of COVID-19 Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Managed with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at us Academic Centers, Annals of Surgery,April 9, 2021
• Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination, NEJM, April 9, 2021
• Symptoms and Functional Impairment Assessed 8 Months After Mild COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers, JAMA, April 7, 2021
• Learning loss due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, PNAS, April 7, 2021
• The relationship of large city out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and the prevalence of COVID-19, EClinicalMedicine, April 7, 2021

• CDC COVID-19 Situation Summary, CDC Newsroom, COVID-19 Science Updates, and COVIDView
• Novel Coronavirus Reports - All the latest COVID-19 related reports from MMWR in one place.
• WHO Situation Reports (updated weekly)
• NIAID News Releases - latest drug and vaccine trials news and more.
• 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

• MMWR COVID-19 Weekly Briefing podcast - Highlights the latest scientific information from the COVID-19 response
• ​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
• Surviving a Pandemic, a series of COVID-19 episodes of Healthy You: A GWSPH Podcast  
• 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 COVID-19 vaccines.  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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