[This post will be regularly updated. I’ll be adding every single article I have read in order to have a concise record for when I want to refer to anything in future. There are going to be Twitter threads, infographics and reports on the new discoveries and observations that are made about this novel virus.]
General:
Fake Facts Are Flying About Coronavirus. Now There’s A Plan To Debunk Them by Malaka Gharib [x]
COVID-19: track coronavirus cases in UK [x]
How the Coronavirus Could Take Over Your Body (Before You Ever Feel It) by Jeff Wise [x]
Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life by Natasha Daly [x]
How the Pandemic Will End by Ed Yong [x]
2019 Global Health Security Index (irony ends on this site) [x]
A thread by Peter Kolchinsky on ‘reinfections’ documented in Asia. [x]
Covid Crisis Lab is a social science research to understand the spread of #COVID19, and analyse its implications on the health of population, health care, society, and the economy at large. [x]
Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis? by Jon Henley and Eleanor Ainge Roy [x]
The role of labour activism in Vietnam’s coronavirus success by Joe Buckley [x]
Research:
Community Mitigation Guidelines to Prevent Pandemic Influenza — United States, 2017 [x]
Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China [x]
Epidemiological Characteristics of 2143 Pediatric Patients With 2019 Coronavirus Disease in China [x]
Patients’ accounts:
Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived. by Sui-Lee Wee and Vivian Wang [x]
Thread by Shiraz Maher on his experience with COVID-19 [x]
‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19 by Dirk Draulans [x]
Lost On The Frontline – Profiles of 115 health care workers who lost their lives while protecting others. [x]
) shares a picture of his uncle’s funeral. He lost his life to the #CoronaVirus. The relatives are performing the last prayer (نماز میّت) in front of the ambulance carrying the body. Socially distant, they stood under the rain “crying on their own.”
Social:
Coronavirus will also cause a loneliness epidemic by Ezra Klein [x]
How a Religious Cult in Korea Spread COVID-19 by Ryan Estrada and Kim Hyun Sook [x]
What It’s Like to Self-Quarantine With a Michelin-Starred Chef by Kaitlin Menza [x]
I’m an Undocumented Restaurateur — Who’s Going to Help Me? – as told to Chris Crowley [x]
This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For by Laurie Penny [x]
“The people on the front line are not fighters. They are healers and carers. Emotional and domestic labor have never been part of the grand story men have told themselves about the destiny of the species—not even when they imagine its grave.”
Fear of an Invisible Threat by Kerry Howley [x]
The call for pandemic productivity is class warfare in disguise by Mehreen Kasana [x]
COVID-19 Mental Health Resources List by Scherezade Siobhan [x]
Medicine:
A thread of COVID-19 CXR (all SARS-CoV-2 PCR+) from @/ChestImaging’s hospital (Spain). [x]
Personal Protective Equipment:
How to Make a CDC-Approved Cloth Face Mask by Jeffery Van Camp [x]
Pakistan:
Why the Covid-19 crisis is an urban crisis by Karachi Urban Lab [x]
Finally an advertisement in Sindhi AND Pushto to make safety measures accessible to the masses [x]
Why are Karachi’s hospitals getting more DOAs, near-death patients? [x]
COVID-19 Takes a Toll on Pakistan’s Transgender Community by Ebad Ahmed [x]
Kora Kaghaz 