List of resources for further reading (compiled starting Mar 10, being updated)
Plans to address the crisis:
- Ten Weeks to Crush the Curve
- The Virus Can Be Stopped, But Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say
- Containing COVID-19 Will Devastate the Economy. Here’s the Economic Case for Why It’s Still Our Best Option.
- Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
Timeline for return to "normal":
- The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
- How Will We Know When It’s Time to Reopen the Nation?
General information about epidemiological analysis
- Aggregator site -- Flatten the Curve
- How Much Worse the Coronavirus Could Get, In Charts -- NYT detailed analysis of the healthcare system overload (Mar 13)
- This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu
- Not a Wave, a Tsunami -- info from Italy (Mar 13)
- Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” -- (Mar 14)
- IHME Projections -- based on curve fitting from previously exposed countries, rather than SIR (Susceptible Infectious Recovered)
Resources that are good for all, but might be particularly helpful in talking to young adults about the impact of individual action
- Coronavirus spreads quickly and sometimes before people have symptoms, study finds -- Science Daily digest of new study from epidemiological literature (Mar 16)
- You Can Help Break the Chain of Transmission -- (Mar 19)
- What’s your risk of dying of COVID-19 - or inadvertently allowing the death of someone in your community? -- (Mar 6)
- 10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known -- (Mar 16)
- COVID-19 Stops With Us -- (Mar 23) local video with an Italian link
Data and visualizations!
- Infographics on the disease, takes some time to update
- Johns Hopkinds University COVID-19 Dashboard -- GIS map
- COVID-19 Tabular Dashboard -- odd gaps now addressed; all continents included
- Kinsa Health Weathermap -- big data/crowdsourcing for trends
- Financial Times Coronavirus Coverage - tables and maps, updated daily
- Social Distancing Scoreboard -- drill down to county level
- Meta list -- a link to a list of reference links (includes the above and many more, variety of sources and subjects/angles on COVID-19 in the state, country, and world)
Recommendations for maintaining information hygiene. Check your sources!
Useful and informative images and graphs related to all of the above references, shareable:
