- Top Governmental information sources:
- Top trustworthy information and data sources:
- 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States – Wikipedia collates information from State health departments and tabulates daily total cases and deaths by source for state.
- Johns Hopkins University
- Worldometers: Coronavirus Update (Real-time information for the whole world)
- Worldometer: United States Coronavirus Updates (Real-time information on the situation in the US)
- Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, a comprehensive source of news, data, analysis and resources headed by Dr. Michael Osterholm. – CIDRAP
- The COVID Tracking Project. The most up-to-date data on COVID-19 testing in the U.S. broken down by state.
- Coronavirus facts alliance: A searchable database of falsehoods, fallacies and hoaxes along with a fact-checker for information in 70 countries and 40 languages – from Poynter Resources
- Data visualization and graphs:
- STATnews Covid-19 Tracker (Comprehensive data visualization by country, state/province of a wide range of useful metrics, easily customizable. Combines data from 15 sources. Includes 1-week, 2-week, 1-month, 1-day, etc. trend options for cases, deaths and testing)
- Coronashutdown. Powerful real-time mapping of current cases by state and county.
- Our World in Data COVID-19 page. A very useful set of graphs, statistics and data sources related to COVID-19.
- Information is beautiful. A cool collection of graphs, covering many aspects of the epidemic, updated regularly.
- Aatish Bhatia’s website – COVID trends. Includes my favorite log-log graphs.
- #COVIDMonitor United States. Ralph Straumann’s superb collection of state-specific graphs.
- The COVID-19 Forecast Hub, interactive forecasting and visualizations from the Reich Lab at the University of Massachussetts Amherst.
- Top sites for state-specific information, projections and data:
- A brief multimedia presentation on vaccination including a timeline of milestones and an animated presentation on how vaccines work (Nature)
- Compare effective reproductive rate (Rt) estimates over time and by state from rt.live from a model developed by Kevin Systrom and Thomas Vladeck – rt.live
- Find additional model-based estimates of effective Reproduction rate (Rt), current and future epidemic curves for countries and states over time using the best performing machine learning model developed by Youyang Gu and colleagues – covid19-projections
- Tracking each state’s progress with up-to-date information on transmission, testing, hospital utilization, and contact tracing status for the U.S. and states at the COVIDexitstrategy.org.
- The New York Times Dashboard for tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths by various geographic units.
- Where to find information from your state and local health departments – Live Science
- Wall Street Journal’s guide to state COVID-19 lockdowns.
- *NEW* Georgia Tech’s COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool provides customizable risk estimates useful for decision makers. Uses seroprevalence data to calculate risks based on location and event size – COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
- DIY tools, tips and tricks
- How to safely decontaminate N95 respirator masks in 3 minutes using a microwave and steam. From FastCompany.com.
- Health coverage from The Atlantic magazine
- How to Clean and Disinfect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Stuff. Great guide and tips from Wired Magazine.
- Print this so you don’t bring coronavirus home. CNN article from Scottie Andrew with a helpful step-by-side guide to protecting your home.
- DIY instructions of making COVID-19 masks at home from Kaiser-Permanente.
- How to make your own hand sanitizer. From Healthline.com
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Thomas A. Glass, Ph.D. 