COVID - 19 Research Resources: Media

• Salisbury University reports ten COVID-19 cases, urges everyone to “protect the flock”
• Hospitals allow a few more visitors, but restrictions remain (Aug, 20)
• Coronavirus in the DMV: What you need to know 

From the Washington Post. Includes an extensive FAQ and free sign-up access to their newsletter

• Salisbury Grapples with Impact of Coronavirus (Three part series):
  • https://www.delmarvapublicradio.net/post/mayor-jake-day-how-salisbury-residents-are-coping-part-2

        Delmarva Public Radio's Don Rush talks with Mayor Jake Day about the impact of pandemic as part of the three part series.

• How Maryland jumped 1,200 new coronavirus cases in a day      From Salisbury Daily Times

• 5 Tips to Disinfect Your Social Media of COVID-19 Fake News from Maryland Today, University of Maryland

• What is the Wicomico County Health Department doing to protect the community?

• Maryland Buys 500,000 Test Kits From South Korea, Drawing Criticism From Trump​ - (April 21, 2020) by Brakkton Booker from NPR

• Coronavirus in Maryland: How to get tested - (Updated August 10, 2020). WBAL TV

• Hospitalizations and Covid-19 cases soar as the US enters one of the busiest travel weeks of the year - CNN, Nov. 2020
• Dr. Fauci outlines 5 ways to blunt COVID-19 pandemic’s resurgence - from AMA
• NIAID Director and Presidential Coronavirus Task Force Advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, discusses recent developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner
   
• CNN: Coronavirus Fact vs Fiction with Dr. Gupta​ - podcasts from CNN
   
• Health in the News - A guide from Boston College Libraries curating news from some media sources, for ex. CBS News, Fox News, Medicine Net News
   
• COVID-19 Projections from IHME 

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

• What the Ebola outbreak could teach us about how to contain the novel coronavirus from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

• Identification of viruses and bacteria could be sped up through computational methods by University of Cambridge. Posted on Phys.org

• Epidemiologist says COVID-19 may be more infectious than thought - an article by Al Powell from Harvard Gazette

• Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted - an article by Drs. Fauci, Lane, Redfield from New England Journal of Medicine

• Coronavirus testing: What you need to know about antibody tests, antigens and serology - (April 24, 2020) by Dale Smith from C/Net

• NIH begins study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection - (April 10, 2020). NIH Press Release

• How Long Can Coronavirus Survive On Hard Surfaces? - (March 20, 2020). On All Things Considered on NPR. Includes the transcript and the audio file

• Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker - from NewsGuard. 

  "As a new strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads across the globe, so does disinformation and misinformation. Follow the spread of this dangerous information with NewsGuard’s new Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center. Listed below are all the news and information sites in the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, and Germany that we have identified — 190 so far — as publishing materially false information about the virus. You’ll find websites that are notorious for publishing false health content, and political sites whose embrace of conspiracy theories extends well beyond politics."

• Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads on Facebook, Watchdog Says - (April 20, 2020) by Lukas Alpert from Wall Street Journal

• Why uncertainty about coronavirus breeds opportunity for misinformation - (april 10, 2020) by Courtney Vinopal from PBS News Hour Health

• Facebook Approved Ads With Coronavirus Misinformation- (April 7, 2020)  by Kaveh Waddell from Consumer Reports 

• Here’s How Facebook, Twitter And TikTok Are Battling Coronavirus Misinformation - by Isabel Togoh from Forbes