Guides: Infectious Diseases and Biohazards: COVID-19

COVID-19 Current Awareness Emails

COVID-19 Evidence Alerts Emails from McMaster PLUS
Sign up form for the COVID-19 Evidence Alerts email from McMaster PLUS. Updated every weekday with the current best evidence for clinical care of people with threatened, suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection. Reports are critically appraised for scientific merit, and those with acceptable scientific merit are appraised for relevance and importance by frontline clinicians.

COVID-19

Georgetown University
University Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center

Vaccine

Vaccines.gov
A national database of locations that provide the Covid vaccine. The database content is provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and VaccineFinder from Boston Children’s Hospital.

Databases & portals

TRIP COVID-19
COVID-19 TRIP database search - evidenced based content to support practice and/or care.
WHO COVID-19 database
International /multilingual scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19 collated by the World Health Organization
COVID 19 Portal [EBSCO]
Portal to point of care content, journal articles and international, federal and state guidance.
Disaster Information Management Research Center - Novel Coronavirus search
PubMed Search - Coronavirus
LitCovid
LitCovid from the National Library of Medicine provides up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19 and a central access to growing research articles in PubMed.

Clinical trials

Clinical trials - Novel Coronavirus
List of US Federally-funded clinical studies related to COVID-19
Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Clinical Trial Tracker
This site organizes and presents COVID trials via a map visualization

Point of care

Telehealth and COVID-19
Overview for providing care at a distance during COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Curbside Consults
From the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine,
this site addresses key questions, issues, and concerns with managing patients with COVID-19. “COVID-19 Curbside Consults” are authored by clinicians who confront this infection daily.
Introduction to diagnosing COVID-19 with chest CT findings.
Coronavirus Clinical Toolkit [Elsevier]
Clinical Skills, Nursing and Allied Health Care Plans, eLearning, Point-of-Care Clinical Overviews, Order Sets, Drug Monographs, Procedure Videos and Patient Education materials. (Content is download-able)
COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) [DynaMed]
Evidence based point of care tool overview of the Coronavirus
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) [5minuteconsult]
Point of care Coronavirus overview including description, diagnosis, treatment, ongoing care and clinical pearls

Equipment & facilities

Alternate Care Site (ACS) Toolkit
Toolkit developed by the US Federal Healthcare Resilience Task Force to help address potential shortages in medical facilities during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Checklist for Healthcare Facilities: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators during the COVID-19 Response
Intended to help healthcare facilities prioritize the implementation of the strategies for optimizing the supply of N95 respirators
Clinical Skills: N95 Mask Fitting
N95 decontamination
Three approaches to N95 decontamination for the COVID-19 pandemic from the n95decon group, a scientific consortium for data-driven study of N95 filtering facepiece respirator decontamination.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)-Fighting Products
Provides a list of products that have been pre-approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use against emerging enveloped viral pathogens and can be used during the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak Preparedness Center [ECRI]
Preparation and patient handling checklists, equipment list, and recommendations for infection control from the ECRI institute.
COVID-19 Law Lab
This site gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. Guidelines for healthcare facilities and local health departments can be found at this site.

Articles and books

Recent Publications - Covid-19 Variants
Recent Publications - Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection ("Long Covid')
Rapid Reviews COVID-19
Journal that seeks to accelerate peer review of COVID-19-related research and prevent the dissemination of false or misleading scientific news. The editorial team identifies papers related to the novel coronavirus and its impacts that have been posted to preprint servers and commissions cross-linked, rapid peer reviews of these manuscripts.
COVID-19 Literature Surveillance Team
Daily reports by Medical students, PhDs, and physicians on recent COVID-19 articles. Recent articles are analyzed and graded for their level of evidence . The goal is to empower healthcare providers to take the best care of themselves and those in their care.
Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) papers
Running list of the retractions of papers about COVID-19.
COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv
medRxiv and bioRxiv are two preprint journal article repositories wherein findings are immediately available to the scientific community and feedback can be given on draft manuscripts. Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted; however, all undergo a basic screening process.
Novel Coronavirus Information Center [Elsevier]
Clinical guidelines, patient education and other information for physicians, nurses and healthcare educators presented in both English and Chinese from the publisher Elsevier
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus [JAMA]
Videos and information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus from the publishers of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) [SpringerNature]
Research articles from SpringerNature, publishers of Nature, BioMedCentral journals and other publications.
Coronavirus Resources and Tools (COVID-19) [Wolters Kluwer]
UptoDate, AudioDigest, MEDLINE searches and Nursing coronavirus resources provided by Wolters Kluwer/OVID

COVID-19 and the Heart: a Case-Based Pocket Guide by Muhammad Saad; Timothy J. Vittorio
ISBN: 9781264266708
Publication Date: 2021-10-01
COVID-19: Prediction, Decision-Making, and Its Impacts by K. C. Santosh (Editor); Amit Joshi (Editor)
Access Note: Concurrent User(s): 1
ISBN: 9789811596810
Publication Date: 2020-12-12
Fields Virology - Emerging Viruses by Howley Knipe; Sean Whelan
ISBN: 9781975112547
Publication Date: 2020-04-17
Coronaviruses by John Ziebuhr (Series edited by)
Access Note: Concurrent User(s): 1
ISBN: 9780128047361
Publication Date: 2016-09-30
Neurological Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Gamaleldin Osman (Editor); Ahmad Riad Ramadan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780323826914
Publication Date: 2021-08-26
Textbook of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 by Subramani Mani; Jorn-Hendrik Weitkamp
ISBN: 9780323875394
Publication Date: 2023-02-01

Data

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
A geographic information system (GIS) tool for data visualization and mapping a variety of topics including demographics, health, quality of life, employment and COVID-19 data .
Large Collection
2007 to the Present
Updated as needed

COVID Behaviors Dashboard
From the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. Explore global and regional view of COVID vaccine acceptance and related behaviors
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
Scholarly articles, including many with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community. Use the SciSight visualization tools to explore the content.
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases [Johns Hopkins CSSE]
Map with real-time data about the number of patients diagnosed with COVID-19
Coronavirus Situation [WHO]
Map with real-time data from the World Health Organization
Create a COVID-19 Dashboard
Step by step instructions for creating a Covid-19 dashboard using Google Data Studio
Emory's COVID Health Equity Interactive Dashboard
The COVID-19 Health Equity Dashboard seeks to fill the gaps in county-level data about the virus and underlying social determinants of health.
National COVID Cohort Collaborative
Collaborators will contribute and use COVID-19 clinical data to answer critical research questions to address the pandemic. The N3C is a partnership among Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program hubs and the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H), with overall stewardship by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

Drug therapy & development

COVID-19 Resources [epocrates]
Includes drug therapy trial updates, herbal supplements information and interactive tools for symptom evaluation

Virtual medical education

COVID-19 Related Lectures from The Georgetown DOM
Provided by the Allan J. Goody, MD Bedside Medicine Series in collaboration with the W. Proctor Harvey Center for Excellence in Clinical Teaching.
Covid-19 Rx: Treatment Simulations
Treatment simulations of suspected Covid-19 patients that have been triaged by severity of illness. Once in the patient room, the task is to gather data, develop a differential diagnosis, order additional diagnostic tests, and treat the patient. Patient and disease factors and the choice and timing of treatments will impact the outcome of the illness.
Covid-19 Interactive Primer
Simulation for new internal medicine interns and other providers to help learn basic concepts of managing floor patients who are suspected or confirmed of having Covid-19.

Managing stress & self care

Caring for our caregivers during COVID-19
Guidelines for health care systems to create infrastructure to support the well being of physicians, nurses and care team members
Managing Stress: Information For Nurses
From the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Strategies to Support Health Care Workers during COVID-19
From the National Academy of Medicine, strategies to sustain the well-being of clinicians during COVID-19.
Medical Student Well-Being
From the Association of American Medical Colleges , student service providers, faculty, staff, and current medical students share personal stories of resilience, resources for maintaining well-being, and programs, practices, and strategies they have found to be effective in building student well-being.

Local response

Coronavirus [Washington DC Department of Health]
COVID-19 in Virginia
COVID-19 in Maryland
COVID Local: A Frontline Guide for Local Decision-Makers
Providing an initial strategic framework for state, city, and local leaders as they begin planning what will need to be done to reduce the impact of the outbreak in the near term. Created in part by the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security

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Infectious Diseases and Biohazards

COVID-19 Current Awareness Emails

COVID-19

Vaccine

Databases & portals

Clinical trials

Point of care

Equipment & facilities

Articles and books

Data

Drug therapy & development

Virtual medical education

Managing stress & self care

Local response

National / International agencies