Explore:

• COVID-19 and Environmental Health. (2020, December 22). https://sites.google.com/view/envhealthcovid/ Student-developed website on the key aspects of coronavirus and how they intersect with environmental health

• Jetelina, K. (2020). Your local epidemiologist. Up to date, translated science for the public. Amazing site that is grounded in science.

Do:

• Wear masks. Maintain distance >6ft. Wear eye protection. Avoid crowds.

Read:

• Chu DK, Akl EA, Duda S, Solo K, Yaacoub S, Schünemann HJ; COVID-19 Systematic Urgent Review Group Effort (SURGE) study authors. Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2020 Jun 27;395(10242):1973-1987. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31142-9. Epub 2020 Jun 1. PMID: 32497510; PMCID: PMC7263814.
  Don’t get bogged down in the study details – look big picture at what is working

• Nussbaumer-Streit B, Mayr V, Dobrescu AIulia, Chapman A, Persad E, Klerings I, Wagner G, Siebert U, Christof C, Zachariah C, Gartlehner G. Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: a rapid review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD013574. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD013574 Great plain language summary describing early evidence for the efficacy of quarantine

From COVID-19 Annotated Bibliography (part of our course materials)

Virus biology section (if you want a refresher) – https://bit.ly/ESHHCOVID19
Also, spoiler alert, it looks like pangolin is not the intermediate host (Li et al., 2020; doi: 10.1002/jmv.25731). Mink is getting more press lately for being asymptomatic carriers with >99.6% viral homology (described in Salajegheh et al., 2020 below).

Read:

• Salajegheh Tazerji, S., Magalhães Duarte, P., Rahimi, P. et al. Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to animals: an updated review. J Transl Med 18, 358 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02534-2 Mink, tigers, cats, dogs – all here

Read:

• Wallace, C. Why racism, not race, is a risk factor for dying of COVID-19. Scientfic American. June 12, 2020 [great article for thinking about environmental justice in a context that integrates what we’re talking about this week related to epigenetics and occupational health] Link via Scientific American.

• Ruiz, N.G., Horowitz, J.M., and C. Tamir. Many Black and Asian Americans say they have experienced discrimination amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends, July 1, 2020. Link via Pew Research Center

Consider Intersectionality:

When protesters of systemic racism are tear gassed, how might that exposure impact their risk for COVID-19? Learn more about the health effects of tear gas: