​Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

PODCASTS

TED talks

1. How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_we_must_respond_to_the_coronavirus_pandemic
2. What the world can learn from China’s response to the coronavirus https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_liu_what_the_world_can_learn_from_china_s_response_to_the_coronavirus
3. Why sleep matters now more than ever
   https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_why_sleep_matters_now_more_than_ever
4. How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_choo_how_health_workers_are_responding_to_the_covid_19_pandemic
   
   

Solving Healthcare with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng (palliative care and ICU doctor at TOH and Montfort)
https://solving-healthcare-with-dr-kwadwo-kyeremanteng.simplecast.com/episodes

COVID-19 Information Session with Dr. Vera Etches (Ottawa Chief Medical Officer of Health)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8KSH-bXGug&fbclid=IwAR2Y0iy6ZafA7KXt-PtC-fMWTURCxiab3oWIk5ggauIJ2EOl-JchpmJVuw0

Annals on call – COVID-19: Is Chloroquine the Answer?
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764587/annals-call-covid-19-chloroquine-answer



STAY UP TO DATE!

1. Modelling COVID-19 in Ottawa. Regularly updated with data from Ottawa Public Health
   https://613covid.ca/
2. Synopsis of Key Articles – Public Health Ontario
   https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/diseases-and-conditions/infectious-diseases/respiratory-diseases/novel-coronavirus/articles
3. Health Canada approves Spartan Bioscience’s portable COVID-19 test
   https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/health-canada-approves-spartan-biosciences-portable-covid-19-test
4. Harvard Health Publishing and COVID-19 Health Literacy Project Multilingual Fact Sheets
   https://covid19healthliteracyproject.com/#languages

​COVID-19 PUBLICATIONS (REVIEWS, EXPERT OPINIONS)

Understanding coronavirus

1. Structure of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from COVID-19 virus https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/science.abb7498.long
2. Structure of Mpro from COVID-19 virus and discovery of its inhibitors
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2223-y

Clinical manifestations of COVID-19

1. Hematologic, biochemical and immune biomarker abnormalities associated with severe illness and mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a meta-analysis
   https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/cclm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-cclm-2020-0369/article-10.1515-cclm-2020-0369.xml
2. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) CT findings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
   https://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(20)30262-3/pdf
3. Neurologic Manifestations of Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2764549

Pharmacotherapy for COVID-19

1. Pharmacologic treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A review https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764727
2. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in covid-19
   https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1432.long
3. Drug evaluation during the Covid-19 Pandemic
   ​https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2009457?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed

Resource utilization and intensive care management

1. Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives https://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/early/2020/03/31/cmaj.200465.full.pdf
2. Intensive care management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): challenges and recommendations https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600(20)30161-2.pdf

Public Health

1. Association of Public Health Interventions With the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764658
2. Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099(20)30243-7.pdf

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