Covid-19 resources

Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19 | 0 comments

Update May 20/20: this list is quite outdated now. There are much better resources that weren’t around when I started this list. I will keep this up and make some changes but it’s basically a personal resource, likely of limited value to others.  

This is a curated list of the best available COVID-19 links I made for myself and to help family, friends, neighbours. As the scope of this pandemic broadens, I am seeking any sites that can help shape the best way forward: crowd-sourced health care hacks, open source data crunching tools, trackers, best policies and practices for new realities, how to keep both people and data safe etc.

I am thinking in terms of short term, medium term, and long term resources:

  • short term – slowing new cases to a crawl and dealing with the enormous emergency challenges (what this list started for & still the priority by far!!)
  • medium term – building out the tools & strategies needed for 12-18 months until vaccine brings herd immunity (what I have started adding)
  • long term – après ça le déluge – pretty sure there’s time to circle back to this one later. 

My motives are entirely selfish: to keep myself and my loved ones, near and far, alive and healthy. I don’t know which of you lovely people around the globe we might need down the road so it’s in my selfish interest to keep you alive too. If there’s a better list out there, or if you have ideas for increasing the value and functionality of this one, please let me know. I have no ego in this and no desire to duplicate efforts. Please submit comments below (they won’t appear but I’ll see them) or tweet @PhoenixFoxFL.

Local & regional (to me) sites first, then national, then worldwide. All vetted when added unless noted. All links open in new tabs. 

Last updated April 3 7:56 PM EDT

 

 

Toronto/Ontario Sites

Canada-Wide Sites

Worldwide/General Interest Sites

  • Cyborg Systems & Solutions COVID-19 Response App – NEW! – Unvetted commercial product– New tracking app called Unmaze. News release with video at this link.  **This is going into a new category of commercial products for sale. It does not belong here but I would like to stay on top of this sector **
  • Element AI for COVID-19 Research – NEW! – “This free semantic search platform has been developed to assist researchers and the scientific community at large, to help access information and accelerate research efforts vital to mitigating the pandemic. Currently built on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), the database will continue to grow with both structured and unstructured formats as other open datasets become available.”
  • Blackbaud’s COVID-19 Resources – NEW! – Many free tools & resources for social good org’s on challenges of COVID-19.  Webinars, virtual user groups, community forums, podcasts, e-books and more. Topics like change management, remote workforce, virtual fundraising, financial management, donor communications and more. 
  • COVID-19 Acute & Intensive Care Resource Tool – NEW! – “An online tool capable of estimating the maximum daily number of incident COVID-19 cases that a healthcare system could manage based on age-based case distribution and severity, and the number of available acute and critical care resources.”
  • MIT TEchnology Review Coronavirus section – NEW! – watching this space for emerging projects & products like this
  • COVID-19 Beacon – NEW! – “Researchers can share genetic info, use the new Beacon to discover sequences with specific genetic mutations, and map their geographic and evolutionary origins.  Analysis of the viral genomes, combined with clinical and epidemiological data, can track whether the virus is changing and how it is being transmitted, and potentially identify targets for diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines.”
  • MORE Health COVID-19 Self-Assessment – NEW! – symptom assessment/advice tool in six languages (Chinese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). NB: you must register & provide personal info to use the site.
  • Near Threat – NEW! – Public beta – worldwide tracker of threat of many types of disaster.
  • WHO COVID-19 Pandemic Home – WHO’s COVID-19 section. Crammed with worldwide info advice, including page of rolling updates.
  • ncov2019 Coronavirus Dashboard – rich source of worldwide data. Created & continually refined by 17 yo American high school student Avi Schiffman.
  • Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases – the original worldwide real-time tracker from Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering. FAQ page here.
  • BNO’s Tracking Coronavirus – Map, data & timeline – Avi Schiffman links to it; ’nuff said. Data tables & visualizations from Independent news org. NB: some articles have data newer than pub. date.
  • Worldometer’s Coronavirus Page – this one’s on probation, no idea if it’s any good. 

Misc. General Interest

  • Good News Network ‘coronavirus’ search – uplifting human interest stories, scientific advances etc. What Mr. Rogers would tell you to read. Click on it often.
  • Coronavirus Cleaning Guide – how to clean & disinfect yourself, your home, & your stuff
  • Shelter in Place – A Printable Guide – a printable guide to what you need to prepare to shelter in place. Or, yanno, to kick yourself for forgetting.
  • Doctor answers COVID-19 questions – a little old (it livestreamed Mar 20) but extremely informative. Hour-long video with link to PDF to follow along. Caveats: I can’t comment on value of info beyond the first 15 minutes. Compare any info here with newer trusted findings before relying on what he said. The only info I caught in the first 10 minutes that I think is outdated is how long the virus can live on some surfaces (much longer than he says).

 

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