COVID-19

COVID-19 resources

by Tony Thomas

FAQ

Do you have any questions about COVID-19? Here's the government's FAQ site about COVID-19.

Mental wellness

Need to cool down? NYC Well has a list of COVID-19 Digital Mental Health Resources that are free during the pandemic. Prefer a .pdf version? Click here.

news

It's so easy to keep up with the latest COVID-19 news from around the world but then be inundated with reports of the very worst situations which in turn affects stress levels and mental health. This site aims to change that by providing positive news related to the pandemic curated from other sites, stories of people helping each other and the positive side of humanity. These articles aren't an exhaustive list of every article but will be updated daily.

This news aggregator can help you keep up with the daily COVID-19 related news.


And now for the mainstream media...

Here's NBC News' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's ABC News' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's Fox News' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's The Wall Street Journal's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's CNN's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's the New York Times' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's The Guardian's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's NPR's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's USA Today's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's Associated Press' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's Time's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's The Washington Post's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's Buzzfeed News' coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's HuffPost's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Here's Politico's coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Charts and data

Below, you will find plenty of charts and data, all of which can be confusing. Luckily, this website helps simplify all those charts by giving data. It also has a video by Vox which explains why some coronavirus charts can be misleading.

Many of the below charts are deppresing and may bring you down. The Happy Arc aims to change that, with positive charts and news.

Want to know how many people have COVID-19, died from it, or recovered? Click here to see John Hopkins University's COVID-19 Tracker.

Another interesting COVID-19 dashboard by HealthMaps can be viewed by clicking here.

Another compilation of COVID-19 charts can be seen by clicking here.

The Humanistic GIS Laboratory of the University of Washington has their own COVID-19 map, which you can view by clicking here.

This is a compilation of various COVID-19 charts.

Here's the official WHO (World Health Organization) Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard.

This COVID-19 Tracker has a unique layout unlike any other.

CovidWatch also has a unique data dashboard. Going to it automatically redirects for the data about New York. You can use the search bar to check the data for other locations, though.

Corona3D is a 3D interactive simulation of total COVID-19 cases over time. View their data by clicking here.

If you want to see charts in a presentation, Our World in Data has just that. See their presentation, updated daily at noon London time, by clicking here.

COVID-19 Tracker has a unique dashboard, with maps, related news, and charts.

This website is really website. Just enter a state and see the state's daily infections, daily tests, and more. You can see data about New York by clicking here.

Knowi hosts a comprehensive dataset named the Coronavirus Dashboard Data Hub.

For those who just want a simple way to see data, then See the Spread will fulfill your needs. It shows the entire globe in 3D, and each country pops out when you hover it. Overall, it's really just a great resource. COVIDS Impact also has a really simple layout.

Do you want to compare the number of cases in multiple countries? Corona Examiner has just that. Just click on the countries you want to compare, then scroll down to see the data.

For those who want to compare data within a certain period of time, then the COVID-19 Query Tool can help. You can narrow down your search by adding a country, state, and/or province.

Perhaps you want the numbers and not graphs and tables to show COVID-19 data. If that's you, then Corona Chaser is the perfect resource for you.

COVID Atlas claims to be "The most comprehensive source of local COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak information". Go to COVID Atlas by clicking here.

The COVID-19 #Coronavirus Infographic Datapack by informationisbeautiful has a very nice layout. It even summarizes some of the charts so it's easy for you to understand.

Another simple map with COVID-19 data.

Here's another map with COVID-19 data. Note that while the total figures for cases, deaths and statistics are accurate and up to date, the number of deaths in New York State for April 18th and 19th are missing from the USAFacts database, and a few other discrepancies with the JHU databases (for example excluding the 3700 presumptive cases) inflates the current change in deaths day over day. The actual increase in deaths is around 5000 fewer than is shown due to these once the discrepancies are accounted for. (The sharp discrepancy in current D/D data for deaths is an rounding error to ensure numbers are correct).

CoronaWiki's COVID-19 dashboard has a very clean layout.

This globe that shows COVID-19 data is very interesting. You can see the confirmed cases, recovered cases or deaths and compare it to other maps that show wealth, corruption, democracy, climate, climate change, air pollution, and population density.

Specific charts and data

New York City leads the U.S. in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases, with more than 190,000 residents testing positive, according to city statistics. Look up your ZIP code to see how your neighborhood compares to the rest of the city by clicking here.

Though the U.S. health care system is projected to be overwhelmed by an influx of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, the pressure on hospitals will vary dramatically across the country. That’s according to new data released by the Harvard Global Health Institute, which for the first time gives a sense of which regions will be particularly stressed and should be preparing most aggressively right now. The maps ProPublica created based on the data shows why public health officials are so intent on “flattening the curve,” or slowing the spread of infections over a longer period of time, like 18 months instead of six. See if hospitals near you are ready for the coronavirus by clicking here.

This chart shows the state-by-state data of hospitalized cases, recovered cases, tests, and deaths. COVID-19 is affecting people of color the most. It tracks the data in real time. State-level statistics tell part of the story, but many US states are also deeply segregated—meaning different counties in the same state can have vastly different breakdowns by race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity data for COVID cases isn't widely available at the county level, so it uses two numbers already available: the latest infection and death rates for each county, from a New York Times dataset, paired with the largest racial or ethnic group in that county, based on the Census Bureau's 2018 ACS 5-Year estimates.

As COVID-19 spread rapidly around the globe and containment was no longer feasible, pandemic experts called for policies that keep people home in order to mitigate or supress the rapid spread of the disease. The intention is to "flatten the curve", keeping the number of cases low enough to avoid a surge that overwhelms our medical system. While some states sprung into action quickly, declaring state-wide shutdowns, others have left it up to cities and counties - or done little to nothing in terms of enacting similar policies. But is it really working? This tool aims to track the day-by-day trends of newly confirmed cases at a state level, measured by the rate of cases per 10k population.

Many states are lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions on social and business activity that were put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. Questions linger, however, about whether some states meet criteria set by public health experts and the federal government for doing so. Experts are keeping a close eye on whether states that have reopened are seeing an uptick in cases or a worsening in other key metrics. To give people context on state reopenings, and what happens afterward, ProPublica is tracking metrics derived from a set of guidelines published by the White House for states to achieve before loosening restrictions. Even if these criteria are met, without a vaccine, reopening may cause an increase in cases. What’s more, some states may meet all of the criteria and still have a high infection rate. View there data by clicking here.

Visualize the COVID-19 pandemic, country-to-country. This graph offsets each country since it last intersected with the selected country.

This report shows how the re-opening of the country, and increased testing, affect the positive cases and deaths in each U.S. State. The current week's report is compared to each of the previous three weeks.

timelines/covid-19 through time

This website tells the story of COVID-19 using maps. When actual data is available, you can click the button on the downright with the hazard icon to see all the cases on the story's date in the worldwide. To start reading, just scroll down.

Want to see how COVID-19 played out through time? This website can help with that.

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Did you know that coronaviruses have been around for a long time? If you want to do your own research about coronaviruses and the family they belong to (Coronaviridae), then a great resource is The Eye's collection of over 5000 scientific studies relating to this topic. Still want more? Here are studies from the National Institutes of Health, the Wiley Online Library, the Taylor & Francis group, Springer Nature, Oxford Academic, Elsevier, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, SAGE Journals, WHO (World Health Organization), the Lancet, and SSRN. Plenty of more resources can be found here, here, here, or just by searching the internet.

If you have been keeping up with the news lately, you know that pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to develop treatments, cures, preventive vaccines and diagnostic kits to conquer COVID-19. According to the WHO, there are currently 83 such projects being researched; and the number is growing rapidly. This makes communicating the ideas and their status difficult, as there are too many different academic articles to review and compare in a reasonably short period of time. Luckily, Justin Avila, an average citizen, has summarized the research being done for the treatments in phase II or higher, while also being legible to the average person.

misc.

Does anybody out there miss watching YouTube videos or Twitch streams with their friends? DJ3D has the perfect solution for that. You can watch YouTube videos or Twitch streams with others via video chat, text chat, or Discord. You also have your own avatar to move around the "room". Think about it as the virtual theater of YouTube and Twitch.

Status COVID-19 has misc. info about COVID-19.

The 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (or CARES Act) provides hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance to large and small corporations whose operations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. If you want to know which companies are receiving the assistance and whether aid is flowing to firms with a poor record of corporate accountability, head to COVID Stimulus Watch by clicking here.

If you miss going around NYC and want to visit it, Drive & Listen lets you, well, drive and listen in more than 40 cities, all virtually.

Are you really bored? Perhaps you just might want to use Covasim, which is a COVID-19 simulator. You can choose if your population should or should not have social distancing measures; or you can choose to keep school open. Note that Covasim is currently in development and is intended for illustrative explorations of COVID-19 epidemic dynamics only. It is not intended to be used as a policy or decision-making tool.

Since this is such a unique time, perhaps you want to keep memories of it. Post Corona helps with that. Here's how it works: first, you write anything. You can write how you feel, a diary entry, anything. Then, you type your email and what country you're in. Then, when the pandemic is over in your area, you will receive what you wrote in your inbox. Enjoy writing!

This new normal has not been easy. The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted students’ everyday lives as they once knew them. No matter what you're going through—you're not alone. This website hosts the coronavirus stories of many students.

Corostories allows you to sneak peek into daily life around the globe, while staying at home. Because a stranger is just a friend who you haven’t met yet! Place a Marble at a location, fill it with your thoughts and creativity, and let others explore. Or, read other's stories.

This tool uses a mathematical model to simulate a variety of COVID-19 outcomes based on user-defined parameters. This output of the model depends on model assumptions and parameter choices. It is not a medical predictor, and should be used for informational and research purposes only.

A memorial honoring the healthcare workers who sacrificed their lives for us.

About 95% of the world lives in countries where the government and leading disease experts both agree that masks are effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19. Learn about the benefits of masks at Masks4All.

Notes for Support was created so that anyone can contribute to the COVID-19 cause. The website runs on the idea that frontline healthcare workers and patients who are facing depression and isolation, receiving an encouraging, personal message can mean the world. So go to their website and write a kind message to either the brave healthcare patients or the COVID-19 patients.