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Organizations:

  • Center of Disease Control & Prevention - developing digestible content for the public to understand COVID-19 and how to react

  • World Health Organization - heading the global collaboration and information gathering center, providing official statements on information.

  • NPR Science Desk - providing info regarding unique aspects of coronavirus that are less commonly seen through other channels.

  • CNN - conglomerating news reports and serving as a hub for the facts vs fiction of the virus.

  • Johns Hopkins University - built a dashboard for tracking COVID-19 cases around the world providing near real-time updates on the status.

  • FiveThirtyEight- Statistical modeling journalism website, goes into everything COVID-19 Model related from analyzing construction of models themselves to extrapolating with models

  • STAT News- Medicine and Healthcare news focused website that also takes into account data and modeling


People:

  • Surgeon General - addressing recommendations for staying healthy. Working to validate rumors associated with COVID-19 and address misconceptions about infection and spread.

  • MIDAS Network - has been coordinating many of the modeling efforts together with CDC and highlights work of highly qualified data scientists.

  • Nicholas Reich - a primary forecasters working on growth prediction. Using models to drive necessary human behavior changes.

  • Maia Majumder - computational epidemiology expert aiming to predict growth and impact of COVID-19 and source research.

  • Rosalind Eggo - actively retweeting the recommendations of relevant agencies and findings of computational research.

  • Trevor Bedford - incorporating genetic data into models. Using research to develop strategies on mitigating effects of the virus.

  • Alex Vespigniani - building maps of human interaction using airline & cell phone data to build computational models impacting public health

  • Caitlin River - using data from current and SARS research to encourage individual behavior change and social distancing

  • Knuvl Shiekh- New York Times Science Reporter who helps to make their COVID-19 Models

  • Nate Silver - Editor-in-chief of fivethirtyreight.com, gives constant critiques of different models and projections, as well as curating content on recent trends based upon models

  • Maggie Koerth- Senior Science Writer of fivethirtyeight.com, walks through how COVID-19 models are made as well as general editorial content on the virus

  • Ed Yong- Science Writer for The Atlantic, uses models and interviews to educate readers on macro/long term effects of COVID-19 on society

  • Helen Branswell- Senior Infectious Diseases Writer for STAT News, a healthcare and medicine news website.

Contributors: Michael Lin, Thejas Suvarna, Claudia FĂ bregas, Josh Weissman, Rian Ratnavale