The wonderful library staff at Meharry Medical College has compiled an outstanding COVID-19 resource to share with the healthcare audience of Nashville Medical News.
The dynamic datasources (see below) provide links to a wide variety of scholarly publications, datasets, trackers, recommendations and evidence-based guidance. All of the COVID-19 resources included here offer free access.
NMN would like to extend our appreciation to Library Executive Director Sandra Parham, MLIS; Reference Librarian Clare Kimbro, MLIS; and other library staff who compiled this comprehensive list for our readers.
COVID-19 RELATED-RESOURCES FREE TO THE PUBLIC
EBSCO COVID-19 Information Portal
Conduct searches in the following scholarly publications:
The Lancet
Journal of Virology
Journal of Clinical Virology
Bacteriophage
Virus Genes
Virus Research
This AI-driven site created by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides minute-by-minute updates on WHO data, news reports, and interactive charts on the evolution, progression, and trajectory of the COVID-19 crisis.
Butte Lab COVID-19 County Tracker
View trends about rates and intensities among counties nationwide at this site created and maintained by the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
See how researchers joined the Allen Institute for AI to create this Semantic Scholar site, which provides free content that includes more than 36,000 full-text articles.
This AI-driven site gathers content every 24 hours; subscribe to a weekly briefing, view the papers most discussed on social media, and follow trending news from television, newspaper, and newsradio reports.
COVID-Net Open Source Initiative
AI systems based on deep learning are helping to detect COVID-19 in patients by enhancing radiological imaging, in particular chest radiography. Scroll down on this webpage to see imaging and read about the ever-evolving initiative.
Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation (IHME) COVID-19 Projections
View projections on how hospital resources are being used, based on the number of COVID-19 deaths.
Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center
Track reported cases of coronavirus in real time, including total number of cases worldwide and in the United States, total number of deaths, and total of those who have recovered.
World Health Organization (WHO) Database of Global COVID-19 Research Center
Find updates on registered clinical trials -- including the Solidarity Clinical Trial for COVID-19 Treatments -- and research activity updates, along with COVID-19 Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) content.
Springer Nature and the MMC Library Team is monitoring the coronavirus situation closely.
UpToDate Clinical Effectiveness COVID-19 Resources
Consult the UpToDate bedside tool -- provided by Meharry Medical College Library -- for evidence-based content by clinical topic, along with society guidelines for general care and specialty care.
These free resources are provided by Oxford Academic journals and other electronic references, which include:
Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2nd. ed.)
Concise Medical Dictionary (9th ed.)
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Very Short Introductions
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
AccessMedicine COVID-19 Central
Find bedside clinical resources, guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes, case definitions, and 3D views inside the virus on this site maintained by McGraw-Hill Education's AccessMedicine team.
Ambulatory Care Evidence-Based Summary (Elsevier)
This clinical overview for care outside of a hospital setting includes COVID-19 presentation, causes and risk factors, diagnostic procedures, differential diagnosis, treatment options, complications, and prognosis.
Community Care Evidence-Based Summary (Elsevier)
This clinical overview for managing patients at home via telemedicine includes COVID-19 presentation, causes and risk factors, diagnostic procedures, differential diagnosis, treatment options, complications, and prognosis.
DynaMed COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)
Consult the DynaMed bedside tool -- provided by Meharry Medical College Library -- for evidence-based content such as definitions, etiology and pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, guidelines, calculators, and media.
Elsevier COVID-19 Toolkit Overview
Includes clinical overviews, guidelines, order sets, procedure videos, diagnoses, prescribed medications, imaging, drug monographs, patient education, and more for health care professionals treating patients in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Care and Intensive Care units.
Elsevier Toolkits for Health Professionals
Access these front-line clinical tools and resources to help you deliver excellent care and information to your patients, including community, ambulatory, emergency, inpatient, and ICU care.
Emergency Care Evidence-Based Summary (Elsevier)
This site includes a clinical overview for managing patients in an emergency department/immediate response capacity, along with the following resources:
Drug therapy
Monographs for azithromycin, chloroquine, hydrochloroquine, Lopinavir; Ritonavir, and Remdesivir
Diagnostic Imaging Examples
The Oral Health site of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention provides links to infection prevention and control guidelines for performing dental work on patients suffering from COVID-19.
Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Dental Settings
This site includes the most recent revisions, dated from April 7, 2020, on risk to personnel and contingency and crisis planning for dental health professionals.
American Dental Association COVID-19 Resources
This site presents the ADA's official statement related to cancellation of elective dental procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with related articles.
ADA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Center for Dentists
This site provides links to webinars, videos, guidelines, Q&As, and advocacy efforts related to helping dental practices bounce back after having closed to all non-essential dental procedures through April 2020.
Recommended Protocol to MInimize Risk of COVID-19 Transmission
This interim document provides guidance for dental health professionals and their patients regarding preparation for visits and procedures, post-operative instructions, and how to prevent disease transmission between work and home.
Official Literature: What Constitutes a Dental Emergency?
This literature provides listings of acceptable urgent
and emergency dental care circumstances that merit treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Dentistry-Related Articles
COVID-19 Live Literature Searches
Provided by medical librarians, these topical searches -- which include a section on dentistry -- focus on COVID-19 infection prevention, diagnosis, management, therapeutics, complications, containment, use and reuse of PPE, surge planning for hospitals, immunity, and rehabilitation, among other clinical topics related to patient and clinician care.
Medical disciplines for which PubMed search strings have been provided include:
- Respiratory Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Intubation
- Intensive Care
- Dentistry
- Cardiology
- Imaging
Coronavirus in the United States
New York Times Maps of the United States
Use these interactive U.S. maps to find information on the number of confirmed cases county by county and where incidence of the virus is rising fastest
ProPublica: 7 Lessons American's Governors Should Not Ignore
This article, written by ProPublica reporters, accompanies an upcoming webinar; find out how to register below for the April 23, 2020, event.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charts
See what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on throughout the nation to combat COVID-19
Webinar: Advice for Reopening America
Research Video
PRIM&R: Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research
Watch the recording of discussion among those affiliated with Human Research Protection Programs (HRPP) about how they are preparing and responding to concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Elsevier Expert Podcasts
Expert Insights Podcasts on COVID-19 with Elsevier
Episode 1: SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Transmissibility, Pathophysiology and Treatment
Expert Insights Podcasts on COVID-19 with Elsevier
Episode 2 : COVID-19 and Emergency Preparedness
Expert Insights Podcasts on COVID-19 with Elsevier
Episode 3: Medical Informatics and COVID-19: Role and Utility of Hospital Digital Resources and Telemedicine in Managing the Pandemic
COVID-19 Medical & Cultural Podcasts, Blogs & Media
In the Pipeline: Hydroxychloroquine Update
This blog was created by regular contributors to the Science Translational Medicine journal; this post is an informative discussion on a drug being used experimentally on critically ill COVID-19 patients.
NPR Article & Podcast: When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Virus
Code Switch, a podcast airing on National Public Radio, advances the national conversation on all things race and society; 'When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Virus' is a COVID-19-related article and podcast.
Oxford University Press's Academic Insights for the Thinking World
Oxford University Press Blog post 'The Story of COVID-19: By the Numbers'
The Pandemic Challenge: End Separate and Unequal Healthcare
This article was just accepted (4/17/20) into the American Journal of Medical Sciences.
Tracking COVID-19 Activity
Map It. Zap It. UAB COVID-19 Symptom Tracker
Nearly 19,000 people have shared their symptoms and health status as part of a University of Alabama-Birmingham research study. Even if you feel healthy, check in daily to complete a survey that takes less than two minutes to complete.
This joint effort by journalists at The Atlantic magazine and the founder of Related Sciences makes it possible to view data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and more, state by state.