COVID-19 Information Hub

Cyrus Shahpar

May 2020

This is a simple page with links to resources I find useful for finding and understanding COVID-19 information.  If you have any suggestions let me know @CyrusShahpar or on LinkedIn. Thanks!

Disease spread and trends

Global daily update– ECDC – simple charts and table

Africa region – all of Africa (ACDC), WHO AFRO region (WHO)

Country-specific trends– our Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) dashboard – lots of great data

US states – NY Times – state specific epi curves and map

US state data dashboards - RWJ – links to each state dashboard

US county data - JHU – map

Searchable case counts by country and US county - Google – gives counts and trends

US weekly situation - CDC – COVIDVIEW brief

US testing and other data - Covidtrackingproject – by state

Mobility and county-data - UMD – over 30 indicators you can

NYC data – NYC DoH – all things NYC, recently updated

Great data visuals to explore - Our world in Data – can download the data and use charts!

Reproduction number (Ro, Rt) estimates: LSHTM, Rtlive (US-focused), Hong Kong, Covid-19 projections

WHO regional updates: Africa AFRO, Eastern Mediterranean EMRO, Europe EURO, Americas PAHO, South East Asia SEARO, Western Pacific WPRO 

Other important US data

US syndromic surveillance (ILI) – CDC – also see state specific websites

Facebook symptom map - Facebook – huge number of observations

Hospital and ICU capacity - CDC – also see state specific websites

Mobility data - UMD – consolidated index

Mobility trends – Google, Apple, Facebook – trends for countries and some subnational (e.g. county)

How are we doing in US?

CovidExitStrategy – easy to see all the important indicators for the US (we work with them!)

CovidActNow – another site with county data, but limited set of indicators

Covid Forecasts – list of projections from CDC

COVID-projections – A great site for seeing what might be coming, adding more places every week

Latest Science

RTSL Weekly Science Review – highlights of the week all in one place

MMWR - from US CDC

NEJM coronavirus

JAMA coronavirus

Lancet coronavirus

MedRxiv preprint (search for covid)

Pubmed page

Evidence and technical guidance

US CDC FAQs, CDC Guidance

WHO FAQs, WHO Guidance

ECDC updates and guidance

Oxford: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/ list of running questions

Calculators

SEIR epi curve

Various calculators from LSHTM – hospital beds, cases, transmission, outbreak, airport screening

2 Clinical calculators – reviewed by EB Medicine

List of many clinical calculators from MDCalc – not an endorsement just a link

Media

New York Times

STAT news

Vox

Google news  

Twitter (incomplete list!)

Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden

Amanda McClelland @AmandaMcClella2

Richard Horton @richardhorton1

Tom Inglesby @T_Inglesby

Tedros Ghebreyesus @DrTedros

Mike Ryan @DrMikeRyan

John Nkengasong @JNkengasong

Josh Michaud @joshmich

Alexandra Phelan @alexandraphelan

Matshidiso Moeti @MoetiTshidi

Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump

Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton

Ian MacKay @MacKayIM

Sylvie Briand @SCBriand

Oliver Morgan @OWMorgan

Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerhove

Farzad Mostashari @Farzad_MD

Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande

Betsy McKay @betswrites

Lena Sun @bylenasun

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell

Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett

Behrooz Hassani @behrooz_hm

Me @CyrusShahpar