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Covid-19 Data Science
Finding the signal in the noise of Covid-19
Reporting and balanced evaluation of research results, data sets, applications and models, and commentaries related to Covid-19 and its underlying virus, SARS-Cov-2

Covid Trial Explorer
Great website that summarizes all the ongoing clinical trials internationally on covid-19. Very handy source!

Keeping the country closed until everyone is tested is not feasible
My op-ed was just published in The Philadelphia Inquirer making the point that NOW is the time to find more balanced social distancing...

Covid-19 Research Database
The COVID-19 RESEARCH DATABASE is a free resource open to the research and public health community that has been created by Datavant,...

NY Times Article on Status of Coronavirus Testing
A NY Times commentary from an infectious disease expert provides a great summary of where we are in coronavirus testing and why we are...

Effect of Sunlight on Virus?
The US Department of Homeland Security has done a laboratory study "mimicking natural sunlight" and suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 does not...

Facebook Data for Good COVID-19 Data
Facebook has posted freely available data useful for modeling in COVID-19, including high-resolution population density maps and social...

Google mobility reports
Google has assembled and shared mobility reports, that present aggregated data showing time trends in mobility measurements based on...

Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE)
This 4CE Consortium is a Harvard-led consortium integrating EHR information for COVID-19 patients from >100 hospitals across >18 health...

Modeling COVID-19 Spread vs Healthcare Capacity
Epidemiology college Michael Levy has put together this web application for studying COVID-19 spread and its effect on healthcare...

COV-N: Network-based Modeling of COVID Dynamics
This interactive dashboard attempts to forecast state-wise number of COVID cases for India using state-level case data and a...

How to embed interactive COVID-19 maps into your articles
Nice resources from Our World in Data that might be useful for application developers.

the Our World in Data COVID-19 Testing dataset
This data source aggregates testing data across the world listing total tests, tests per day, testing coverage, number of tests per...

Website for collaborative review of COVID-19 literature
A collaborative review of the emerging COVID-19 literature and ongoing chat Great idea!

Bearer of Good Coronavirus News not welcome
This commentary in WSJ discusses experiences of Stanford data scientist John Ioannidis, whose wife Sespina Contopoulos-Ioannidis is an...

Oxford group progressing fast in development of Coronavirus vaccine
NY Times article report on progress of an Oxford group, one of many rapidly developing potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Their results were...

US medical testing, cancer screenings plunge during lockdowns
A report from Komodo Health shows prevention and screening tests have fallen substantially in the past month during the lockdown, with...

Positive randomized clinical trial results for immune modulator tocilizumab
Report has emerged of results from a randomized clinical trial of immune modulators designed to block the cytokine storm that can lead to...

Philadelphia appears to be "past the peak"
Article from Phillyvoice mentions that Covid incidence has been declining in the city, providing encouraging results, but warning not to...

SARS-CoV-2 Testing and Covid-19 Tracking App
One crucial aspect of Covid-19 management is extensive testing. My PhD student Emma Zohner developed this web-based application to plot...


























