LexisNexis COVID-19 Quick Searches: COVID-19 has been dominating global news, financial reporting, legislation, patent filings and everything in between. To help you sift through this deluge of information, the company has created a series of tips and search strings about everything from supply chain disruptions, nonprofit donations, real estate market challenges, price gouging, sports markets, free meals and more. A webinar helps show you how to use these tools.
Health Affairs COVID-19 Resource Center: The publication has gathered blogs and journal articles – along with relevant content from our archives – into a COVID-19 Resource Center. Journal articles highlight lessons from previous pandemics, including school closures during the Spanish flu; public health preparedness; and communicating risk.
Active Monitoring of Persons Exposed to Patients with Confirmed COVID-19: CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report. This March 3 report has some details about how the virus is transmitted and its virulence. It suggests that this virus transmits easily between close contacts.
Cryptic transmission of novel coronavirus revealed by genomic epidemiology: How the COVID-19 Virus Spread in Washington State: An excellent and clear explanation of how scientists know what they know about the spread of the COVID-19 cases in the state. March 2, Bedford Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Structural basis for the recognition of the SARS-CoV-2 by full-length human ACE2, March 4, Science News. How the virus causes illness.
Novel coronavirus structure reveals target for vaccines and treatments. NIH, March 3