Various COVID-19 Resources
Survivor Corps: connecting and mobilizing Covid-19 survivors with the medical, scientific and academic research community
Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) [Our World in Data]
Pandemic Lecture [Santa Fe Institute: Complexity Explorer]
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong [Coursera: Yale]
Disease background of COVID-19 [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control]
MedCram: Coronavirus Pandemic Explained Clearly [Roger Seheult, MD]
Various COVID-19 Articles/Papers (most-recent first):
Prevention
6/3/20: Medical Workers Should Use Respirator Masks, Not Surgical Masks [New York Times] (Originally published 6/1, updated 6/3)
5/26/20: Why Immunity to the Novel Coronavirus Is So Complicated [Smithsonian Magazine]
5/20/20: Let’s Remember That the Coronavirus is Still a Mystery [The New York Times]
5/17/20: Antiviral Mask to Kill Coronavirus on Contact in Development by Researchers [Newsweek]
5/13/20: COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought [Harvard Magazine]
5/13/20: Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reentry [The New Yorker]
- Hygiene
- Distancing
- Screening
- Masks
- Culture
5/6/20: The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them [Professor Erin Bromage, Comparative Immunologist and Professor of Biology (specializing in Immunology) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth]
4/23/20: Making Masks for Your Friends and Family! Nylons to the Rescue, Once Again. [Demcast]
4/15/20: EXERCISE MAY PROTECT AGAINST DEADLY COVID-19 COMPLICATION, RESEARCH SUGGESTS [UVA Today]
4/15/20: The Front Line: Visualizing the Occupations with the Highest COVID-19 Risk [Visual Capitalist]
4/6/20: Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS-CoV-2: A Controlled Comparison in 4 Patients [Annals of Internal Medicine]
3/28/20: How to Significantly Slow Coronavirus? (featuring Minister of Health of the Czech Rep.) [Petr Ludwig / Konec prokrastinace [CZE]
Massage
May/June 2020: “Low Risk” Does Not Equal “No Risk” [Massage & Bodywork]
5/29/20: Massage Therapists Nervous About Reopening [Santa Fe Reporter]
5/29/20: Roadmap to Recovery for Nevada: Massage Establishment Sanitization Guidelines [Nevada Health Response: Local Empowerment Advisory Panel]
5/27/20: COVID-19-Related Coagulopathy [ABMP]
5/25/20: NoVA Weekend Warriors – Ask an Epidemiologist with Dr. Recinda Sherman [Massage Therapy by Meg]
5/23/20: Alternative Ideas for Masking While Prone [HealWell]
Another variation from Knotted Therapeutic Massage 4/25/20.
5/22/20: When We Can Keep You Safe [Massage Vermont]
Part 2 (5/29)
5/21/20: New Guidelines Are Not Too Shabby [HealWell] (review of FSMTB Guidelines)
5/15/20: An Open Letter to Massage Therapy Consumers [HealWell]
5/15/20: 3 NEW OSHA COVID-19 WORKPLACE GUIDELINES THAT MASSAGE THERAPISTS NEED TO UNDERSTAND [Massage Magazine]
5/13/20: What Does it Really Mean for Massage Therapy to be Non-Essential? [Massage Magazine]
5/8/20: Why I’m choosing not to reopen my massage therapy practice in phase one. [HannahBliss Massage & Bodywork]
5/4/20: COVID-19: What We Understand Now [ABMP]
5/4/20: COVID-19: WHEN THE RISKS OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS [Massage Magazine]
5/4/20: Worst. Game. Ever. [HealWell]
5/2/20: An Open Letter about Re-Opening — to Massage Therapy Employers [Tracy Walton & Associates]
5/1/20: COVID-19/Coronavirus Information for Massage Therapists: Fact vs. Fiction [Massage Magazine]
4/29/20: The ABMP Podcast Launches with “Conversations in Quarantine” [ABMP]
4/24/20: Back to Practice [HealWell]
4/21/20: Your governor is not a massage therapist. [HealWell]
3/21/20: Coronavirus and Massage Therapist Resources [Laura Allen, LMBT]
6/24/19: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW ABOUT LIABILITY WAIVERS AND RELEASES [The Law Mother]
Sept 2001: Massage therapies [NCBI]
New Zealand Massage Therapist Notice to Clients [Equilibrium Massage Therapy]
What’s the difference between homicide, murder and manslaughter? [Murphy Law Office, P.C.]
Transmission
6/2/20: Talking Can Generate Coronavirus Droplets That Linger Up to 14 Minutes [New York Times] (Originally published 5/14, updated 6/2)
5/28/20: How coronavirus spreads outdoors vs. indoors [Vox]
5/27/20: Small droplet aerosols in poorly ventilated spaces and SARS-CoV-2 transmission [The Lancet]
5/20/20: CDC now says coronavirus ‘does not spread easily’ on surfaces [NewYork Post]
5/20/20: Large Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease among Wedding Attendees, Jordan [CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases; early release article]
5/19/20: 5 questions about asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, answered [PBS Newshour]
5/13/20: A Study on Infectivity of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Carriers [PubMed]
5/13/20: The Airborne Lifetime of Small Speech Droplets and Their Potential Importance in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA]
5/13/20: COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought [Harvard Magazine]
5/12/20: How Coronavirus Spreads through the Air: What We Know So Far [Scientific American]
5/12/20: Potential of COVID-19 Transmission from Human Eye [News Medical]
5/11/20: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission from Presymptomatic Meeting Attendee, Germany [CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal; early release article]
5/4/20: Evidence Supporting Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 While Presymptomatic or Asymptomatic [CDC: Emerging Infectious Diseases] (for the July 2020 issue)
5/4/20: The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA]
4/16/20: Airborne or Droplet Precautions for Health Workers Treating COVID-19? [PubMed]
4/15/20: The Front Line: Visualizing the Occupations with the Highest COVID-19 Risk [Visual Capitalist]
4/7/20: Indoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2 [MedRxiv]
4/1/20: Coronavirus on Fabric: What You Should Know [WebMD]
10/9/08: Coughing and Aerosols [The New England Journal of Medicine]
Testing
5/30/20: The curious case of the SF doctor who’s been coronavirus-positive nearly 90 days and counting [San Francisco Chronicle]
5/26/20: Beware of false negatives in diagnostic testing of COVID-19 [Science Daily]
5/21/20: ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’ [The Atlantic]
5/11/20: This Course will Train an Army of Contact Tracers. You can Take it, too. [Washington Post]
5/8/20: First At-Home Saliva Test for COVID-19 Earns FDA Approval [Live Science]
5/4/20: FDA Orders Companies to Submit Antibody Test Data [The New York Times]
5/1/20: N.M. couple test positive five times for COVID-19 but show no symptoms [Taos News]
4/23/20: R0, the Messy Metric That May Soon Shape Our Lives, Explained [The New York Times]
Autopsies
5/7/20: Autopsies of COVID-19 Patients Reveal Clotting Concerns [Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy: University of Minnesota]
5/6/20: What Doctors are Learning from Autopsy Findings of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Patients [YouTube: Doctor Mike Hansen]
Affects Blood
5/29/20: Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything [Medium: Elemental]
5/27/20: COVID-19-Related Coagulopathy [ABMP]
5/16/20: Coronavirus: a Third of Hospital Patients Develop Dangerous Blood Clots [BBC News]
5/15/20: Etiologic Subtypes of Ischemic Stroke in SARS-COV-2 Virus patients [medRxiv]
5/14/20: Coronavirus May Pose a New Risk to Younger Patients: Strokes [The New York Times]
5/8/20: Coronavirus Blood-Clot Mystery Intensifies [Nature]
5/7/20: Clotting Factors in COVID-19: Epidemiological Association and Prognostic Values in Different Clinical Presentations in an Italian Cohort [Journal of Clinical Medicine]
4/29/20: Receptors for SARS-CoV-2 Present in Wide Variety of Human Cells [The Scientist]
4/28/20: Large-Vessel Stroke as a Presenting Feature of COVID-19 in the Young [The New England Journal of Medicine]
4/27/20: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Thrombosis and Anticoagulation [American Society of Hematology]
4/27/20: Doctors Increasingly Concerned About Clotting Risk in Severe COVID-19 Patients [CTV News]
4/27/20: COVID-19: Attacks the 1-Beta Chain of Hemoglobin and Captures the Porphyrin to Inhibit Human Heme Metabolism [ChemRxiv] {preliminary report; not yet peer reviewed}
4/25/20: Young and Middle-aged People, Barely Sick with COVID-19, are Dying of Strokes [Washington Post]
4/24/20: Blood Clots Are Another Dangerous COVID-19 Mystery [WebMD]
4/22/20: Toes and fingers can show COVID-19 symptoms, dermatologist says [CBS 12 News]
4/14/20: ‘Hypercoagulation,’ Antiphospholipid Antibodies Seen in COVID-19 [Medscape]
4/9/20: Abnormal Clotting and COVID-19 [Infectious Disease Special Edition]
10/7/18: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation [Medscape]
Other COVID
5/28/20: Association of hypertension with the severity and fatality of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A meta-analysis [Cambridge University Press]
5/27/20: COVID-19 is the disease of the middle aged in some ways more than even of the elderly. [Thread Reader]
5/22/20: Shuttered office buildings may pose Legionnaires’ risk, experts warn [Becker’s Hospital Review]
5/14/20: ‘The Way We Get Through This is Together:’ the Rise of Mutual Aid Under Coronavirus [The Guardian]
5/11/20: The Science Behind How the Body Clears Coronavirus [YouTube: Wall Street Journal]
5/11/20: 10-4: How to Reopen the Economy by Exploiting the Coronavirus’s Weak Spot [New York Times]
5/11/20: Likely No Summer Break from COVID-19 [NeuroLogoica Blog]
5/10/20: Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant on Where We Go from Here [The Al Franken Podcast]
5/8/20: Impact of climate and public health interventions on the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study [Canadian Medical Association Journal]
5/8/20: ‘I’m 79, I Won the Nobel Prize, and I Don’t Give a S—‘ [The Australian Financial Review]
5/8/20: University of Hong Kong Study Finds Eyes are ‘Important Route’ for Coronavirus, up to 100 Times More Infectious than SARS [South China Morning Post]
5/6/20: The Problem With Stories About Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations [The Atlantic]
5/4/20: Freedom! In France, a nursing home takes on COVID and wins [AP News]
5/4/20: What hotels must learn from hospitals for the new reality of tourism [World Economic Forum]
5/4/20: The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Last for 2 Years, According to US Experts [World Economic Forum]
4/29/20: What We Don’t Know About the Coronavirus [The New Yorker]
4/29/20: Why the Coronavirus is so Confusing [The Atlantic]
4/28/20: What To Do If Your Workplace Doesn’t Feel Safe From Coronavirus [HuffPost]
4/25/20: CDC adds 6 new COVID-19 symptoms [KENS 5]
4/14/20: COVID-19 and nature are linked. So should be the recovery. [World Economic Forum]
3/31/20: How to Talk About the Coronavirus [The Atlantic]
3/20/20: Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful [The Atlantic]
Affects Body
5/21/20: More evidence emerges on why covid-19 is so much worse than the flu [The Washington Post]
5/19/20: The patients who just can’t shake off Covid-19 [BBC News]
5/15/20: Skin Involvement in SARS‐CoV‐2 Infection: Case Series [Wiley Online Library: Journal of Medical Virology]
5/15/20: ‘Weird as hell’: the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months [The Guardian]
5/15/20: COVID 19 and heart failure: from infection to inflammation and angiotensin II stimulation. Searching for evidence from a new disease [Wiley Online Library: European Journal of Heart Failure]
5/14/20: Virologist hospitalized with coronavirus believes he got it through his eyes [NBC News]
5/13/20: Acute upper limb ischemia in a patient with COVID-19 [Science Direct]
5/11/20: Periorbital Erythema as a Presenting Sign of Covid-19 [NCBI]
5/10/20: Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body [Washington Post]
5/10/20: Surviving COVID-19 May Not Feel Like Recovery for Some [The New York Times]
5/9/20: Liver Injury is Associated with Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection: a Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis of Retrospective Studies [Wiley Online Library: Hepatology Research]
5/8/20: Doctors Flummoxed by Long-Term Organ Damage in COVID-19 Survivors [Talking Points Memo]
5/1/20: What is ‘COVID Toe?’ Maybe a Strange Sign of Coronavirus Infection [The New York Times]
4/27/20: Which Underlying Conditions Do COVID-19 Patients Have? [Statista]
4/22/20: COVID-19 Skin Manifestations and the Foot: What We Know so Far [Podiatry Today]
4/15/20: How Coronavirus aka COVID19 Kills Some People (But Not Others) [Doctor Mike Hansen]
March 2012: Into the Eye of the Cytokine Storm [NCBI]
Children
5/17/20: ‘Straight-Up Fire’ in His Veins: Teen Battles New COVID Syndrome [The New York Times]
5/15/20: Why the Coronavirus Hits Kids and Adults So Differently [The Atlantic]
5/5/20: 15 Children are Hospitalized with Mysterious Illness Possibly Tied to COVID-19 [The New York Times]
3/23/20: Systematic review of COVID‐19 in children shows milder cases and a better prognosis than adults [Wiley Online Library: ACTA Paediatrica]
Good News
5/21/20: There May Be a Unique Coronavirus Immune Response [Science Translational Medicine]
5/21/20: Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19 [NIH Director’s Blog]
5/19/20: New data suggest people aren’t getting reinfected with the coronavirus [Science News]
5/15/20: One shot to change the world [The Sydney Morning Herald]
5/14/20: T-Cells Found in COVID-19 Patients ‘Bode Well’ for Long-Term Immunity [Science]
5/13/20: Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reentry [The New Yorker]
- Hygiene
- Distancing
- Screening
- Masks
- Culture
5/12/20: 6 Things COVID-19 can Teach Us about Ourselves [Mindful]