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- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Understanding a Pandemic
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): Understanding a Pandemic
Maps
- World Health Organization: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation DashboardMap of the outbreak including numbers for confirmed cases, deaths, etc, by country and date.
- CDC COVID Data trackerMaps, charts, and data provided by the CDC
- nCoV2019.liveStudent-made site with survival rate calculator.
- COVID-19 Situational Risk Calculator"This is a tool to help you think more clearly about whether or not to attend an in-person event."
- Tracking our COVID-19 ResponseAnalyzing states' two-week trends of COVID-19 cases and positive tests.
- CovidActNow - America’s COVID warning systemData and risk levels for states and counties
- COVID Exit StrategyA group of public health and crisis experts gathering and communicating Data.
Controversies in Data Collection
Charts
- Mortality AnalysesExploring how mortality differs in different countries.
- John's Hopkins Mortality Analyses"Countries at the top of this figure have the most deaths proportionally to their COVID-19 cases or population, not necessarily the most deaths overall."
"How canceled events and self-quarantines save lives, in one chart" (How the "Flattening the Curve" chart was developed)
"After ‘Flatten the Curve’, we must now ‘Stop the Spread’. Here’s what that means"
- COVID-19 Illustrations and animations created by Toby Morris in collaboration with Siouxsie Wiles"All the illustrations and animations in one place."
- Flattening the curve worked — until it didn’t."The US started 2020 by “flattening the curve” — and never came up with a plan for what comes next."
- A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air"an overview of the likelihood of infection in three everyday scenarios, based on the safety measures used and the length of exposure"
- When Will Life Return to Normal? Experts Weigh InJune 2020 Chart estimating the likelihood of resuming common activities.
Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 from New England Journal of Medicine, March 17, 2020.
(study of how long COVID-19 lingers on different materials, with implications on transmission and decontamination of surfaces.)
"The Workers Who Face the Greatest Coronavirus Risk" New York Times Interactive March 15, 2020.
Kwon, K. S., Park, J. I., Park, Y. J., Jung, D. M., Ryu, K. W., & Lee, J. H. (2020). Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 35(46), e415. https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415
Videos and Simulations
- The Multiplicative Power of Masks"An Explorable Essay on How Masks Can End COVID-19" in collaboration with Minute Physics
- Simulating an epidemicExperiments with toy Susceptible Infected Resistant (SIR) models...
"3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate." - Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”Contains animated models of infection.
- OutbreakSimulations of a disease outbreak that allow user to adjust variables.