Links to experts, scientific papers, data sources and recent findings, updated weekly

See also Decoding Pandemic Data: A Series of Interactive Seminars

Case Trackers and General Resources

• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
  • Data visualizations, webinars, informational videos
  • National and international data
  • Courses, including a contact tracer course used to train and certify people for this role
• Kaiser Family Foundation: COVID-19 and Related State Data
  • Data about the disease, healthcare capacity, and other health indicators, available by state
• The COVID Tracking Project 
  • Includes racial and ethnic data
  • US data, available by state
  • Access to raw data
• Our World in Data
  • Data visualizations (includes testing data)
  • Worldwide data, by country
  • Access to raw data
• Rhode Island Department of Health

Modeling and Forecasting

• MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Dynamics (Imperial College London)
  • Reports, planning tools, resources for researchers
  • Public resources, including informational videos
  • Access to raw data (international)
• Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (Harvard University)
  • Publications (scientific papers, reports, media)
  • Online events: Upcoming calendar and access to previous
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington
  • Projections
  • Publications
  • Access to raw data (international)
• Reich Lab COVID-19 Forecast Hub (University of Massachusetts–Amherst)
  • Weekly “ensemble” forecasts
  • Repository of models, forecasts, data
  • US data

Data Science Links

• Covid-19 Data Science Zoomposium
  • Access to slides from April 2, 2020 symposium
  • Presentations by Caroline Buckee, Michael Mina, Natalie Dean, Alexis Madrigal
• COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning (Youyang Gu)
  • Projections
  • US and worldwide data
  • Estimate of true infections (includes writeup)
  • Access to raw data
• Covid-19 Mobility Data Network
  • Visualization tools

Explanatory Pieces on Modeling

• Compartmental models in epidemiology (overview)
• Developing an Intuition for Pandemics (Interactive tutorial on disease dynamics by Luis Zaman, University of Michigan​)
• Caution warranted: Using the IHME model for predicting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19 infection:  systematic review and critical appraisal
• Predictive mathematical models of the COVID-19 pandemic:  Underlying principles and value of projections

researcher websites

• Elizabeth Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics
• Nicholas Jewell, University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health Biostatistics Division & Department of Statistics
• Natalie Dean, University of Florida Department of Biostatistics

Other Resources

• @JHU_NCRC on Twitter: More than 40 Johns Hopkins faculty, fellows, and students rapidly reviewing key preprints & published papers.
• NIH Videocasts: Schedule of future events and access to past events, many of which are currently COVID-19-related.