COVID-19 Research & Outbreak Mitigation
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Refer to the Wikipedia article 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic or the World Health Organization’s situation reports for most recent reported case information.
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Protect yourself and others from infection by following these suggestions:
- Handwashing
- Respiratory hygiene
- Self-isolation and self-quarantine
- Social distancing
- Contribute to vaccine research (see below)
Stay calm and wash your hands.
In between, check these projects and get involved:
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m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
A Wiki Project to collect Wikidata resources related to COVID-19 (Q84263196) and SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695). Resources may also relate to relevant pandemics like 2019–20 COVID-19 pandemic (Q81068910).
ScienceOpen Collection: Novel Coronavirus Disease COVID-19
This is a collection of research on the coronavirus disease COVID-2019. It is updated automatically for the terms COVID-2019, SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV. Caution: articles flagged as “preprint” have not yet undergone peer review.
Aweb application for open, rapid reviews of outbreak-related preprints. | outbreaksci.prereview.org
- Find rapid reviews of existing preprints;
- Request reviews of preprints (your own, or preprints you are interested in);
- Review preprints.
A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak | coronavirustechhandbook.com
Tools for Scientists: coronavirustechhandbook.com/science
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A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.
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Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts | github.com/MhdHejazi/CoronaTracker | samabox.com/CoronaTracker/
A collection of Open Source projects during COVID-19 | weileizeng.github.io/Open-Source-COVID-19/
2019 Wuhan Coronavirus data (COVID-19 / 2019-nCoV) | github.com/globalcitizen/2019-wuhan-coronavirus-data
COVID-19 Italia – Monitoraggio situazione | github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19
References
Harris D. (Feb 17, 2020). Could a battle between internet pirates and publishers benefit the fight against COVID-19? newseu.cgtn.com
Kazeem Y. (March 2020). A Senegalese innovation lab is helping the UK develop a 10-minute coronavirus test kit. QUARTZ Africa
Springer/Nature Campaign: springernature.com/in/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus
Wiley Online Library: novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/