- Communities of Color and Immigrants
- Webinar (recording): Pandemia: “The World We Live In Is a House on Fire: Latinx Health and COVID-19” by Latino Commission on AIDS (2020), available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGNHiMvkNk&feature=youtu.be (NOTE: Various peer-reviewed and evidence-based studies are cited in this webinar.)
- Article (Peer-reviewed): Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations by T. Andrasfay and N. Goldman (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2021), available at https://www.pnas.org/content/118/5/e2014746118 (NOTE: This article provides evidence that Black and Latinx populations have been negatively impacted by the COVID pandemic. It can serve as a helpful source to cite in scientific articles and grant proposals, as well as administrative planning documents.)
- White Paper (from health care corporation): Shifting Trends in Vaccine Hesitancy Greater Divergence in Attitudes, Growing Reticence Among Minorities (CVS Health, February 2021), available at https://payorsolutions.cvshealth.com/sites/default/files/cvs-health-payor-solutions-white-paper-shifting-trends-vaccine-hesitancy.pdf .
- Article (peer-reviewed): Experiences of Latinx Individuals Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Qualitative Study by L. Cervantes, M. Martin, M. Frank, et al. (JAMA Network Open. 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2777402 .
- Article (governmental): Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Incidence by Age, Sex, and Period Among Persons Aged <25 Years — 16 U.S. Jurisdictions, January 1–December 31, 2020 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7011e1.htm?s_cid=mm7011e1_w . (NOTE: This research study contains analysis of one year’s worth of data on the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S..)
- Public Health (including Epidemiology and Health Policy)
- Webinars (with Live Updates): Responding to COVID-19: A Science-Based Approach (American Public Health Association, 2020), available at https://covid19conversations.org
- Article (with Live Updates): COVID in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count (New York Times, 2020), available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?name=styln-coronavirus®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Interactive&impression_id=eac80fa0-1d24-11eb-b696-cd9e38e3c759&variant=1_Show
- Website (with Live Updates): Percentage Positive Results By Region Dashboard (New York State Department of Health, 2020), available at https://forward.ny.gov/percentage-positive-results-region-dashboard
- Website (with Live Updates): How Full Are Hospital I.C.U.s Near You? (New York Times, 2020), available at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-near-you.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage (NOTE: The live updates on this website can help administrators and staff plan for closures and phased reopenings. This is also useful information for faculty in public health, nursing, medicine, and other health-related studies.)
- Article (pre-peer reviewed): 5 Million Person-Years of Life Have Been Lost Due to COVID-19 in the United States by S.J. Elledge, available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.18.20214783v2
- Article (peer reviewed): What defines an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine? A review of the challenges assessing the clinical efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 by S.H. Hodgson, K. Mansatta, G. Mallett, V. Harris, K.R.W. Emary, and A.J. Pollard, available at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30773-8/fulltext
- Website (governmental): President-elect Biden/Vice President-elect Harris 13-point COVID-19 plan, available at https://buildbackbetter.com/priorities/covid-19/
- Article (peer reviewed): Differential effects of intervention timing on COVID-19 spread in the United States by S. Pei, S. Kandula, and J. Shaman, available at https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/11/05/sciadv.abd6370/tab-pdf
- Article (Peer-reviewed/governmental): Estimated Resource Costs for Implementation of CDC’s Recommended COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 Public Schools — United States, 2020–21 School Year by K. Rice, G. Miller, F. Coronado, and M. Meltzer (CDC MMWR, 2020), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6950e1.htm?s_cid=mm6950e1_w (NOTE: This article published by the U.S. government’s CDC may be of particular interest to administrators working with K-12 schools as well as educators in education, public health, business, health services administration, school administration, as well as other health-related studies.)
- Article (Peer-reviewed): An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 by J. Howard, A. Huang, Z. Li, et al. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2021), available at https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 (NOTE: This article reviews the latest evidence-based studies on the effectiveness of face masks in preventing infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. It may be very helpful to faculty, staff, and administrators. )
- Website (with Live Updates): COVID-19 Travel Advisory (New York State Department of Health, 2020), available at https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-travel-advisory
- Article: Coronavirus Misinformation: Quantifying sources and themes in the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ by S. Evanega, M. Lynas, J. Adams, and K. Smolenyak (Cornell University, 2020), available at https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Evanega-et-al-Coronavirus-misinformationFINAL.pd
- Article (Peer-reviewed): Immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity by J. Lavine, O. Bjornstad, and R. Antia (Science, January 2021), available at https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/11/science.abe6522.full
- Article (Peer-reviewed/research letter): National Trends in the US Public’s Likelihood of Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine—April 1 to December 8, 2020 by P.G. Szilagyi, K. Thomas, M.D. Shah, et al. (JAMA, December 2020), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774711
- SPECIAL REPORT: 2020 Year-End COVID Update from Columbia University’s ICAP, based at the Mailman School of Public Health; you may download the report here .
- Article (Peer-reviewed): Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study by B. Rader, L. F. White, M. R. Burns, J. Chen, J. Brilliant, J. Cohen, et al. (The Lancet Digital Health, January 2021), available at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30293-4/fulltext
- Website (with Live Updates): COVID-19 Custom List of HP 2030 Objectives (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2021), available at https://health.gov/healthypeople/custom-list?list=odphps-covid-19-custom-list .
- Article (governmental): Maximizing Fit for Cloth and Medical Procedure Masks to Improve Performance and Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Exposure, 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7007e1.htm .
- Article (with Live Updates): Coronavirus Statistics: Tracking The Epidemic In New York by J. Dobkin , C. Diaz, and Z. Gottehrer-Cohen (Gothamist, 2021), available at https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-statistics-tracking-epidemic-new-york?mc_cid=6a3ad3d470&mc_eid=58d0cc46ad&utm_campaign=6a3ad3d470-GOTHAMIST_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=WNYC%20%2B%20Gothamist&utm_term=0_65dbec786b-6a3ad3d470-82311597 . (NOTE: The interactive charts and graphs in this article are updated on a weekly basis.)
- Website: The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic (The Atlantic Monthly Group, 2020) available at https://covidtracking.com (NOTE: Per the authors of the site, “[t]he COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete data about COVID-19 in the US.” The website shut down on 3-7-21 but the data are still available for viewing.)
- Article (peer-reviewed): Impact of the influenza vaccine on COVID-19 infection rates and severity by A. Conlon, C. Ashur, L. Washer, K. Eagle, and M. Hofmann-Bowman (American Journal of Infection Control, February 2021), available at https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(21)00089-4/fulltext . (NOTE: This is a research study on the correlations between receiving the flu vaccine and COVID infections.)
- Article (governmental): Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults Aged ≥65 Years — United States, January–March 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7018e1.htm?s_cid=mm7018e1_w .
- Article (peer-reviewed): Overview of SARS-CoV-2 infection in adults living with HIV by J. Ambrosioni, J.L. Blanco, J.M. Reyes-Urueña, M. Davies, O. Sued, M. Angeles Marcos, et al. (The Lancet HIV, May 2021), available at https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(21)00070-9/fulltext. (NOTE: This is a literature review describing how COVID-19 manifests among people living with HIV.)
- Article (governmental): Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Between Urban and Rural Counties — United States, December 14, 2020–April 10, 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7020e3.htm?s_cid=mm7020e3_w .
- Article (governmental): Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel — 33 U.S. Sites, January–March 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7020e2.htm?s_cid=mm7020e2_w .
- Article (peer-reviewed): “First Do No Harm”: Effective Communication About COVID-19 Vaccines by D. A. Broniatowski, M. Dredze, and J. W. Ayers (American Journal of Public Health, May 2021), available at https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306288 .
- Article (peer-reviewed): COVID-19 and excess mortality in the United States: A county-level analysis by A. C. Stokes, D. J. Lundberg, I. Elo, et al. (PLOS Medicine, May 2021), available at https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003571 . (NOTE: This is a research article describing how COVID-19 cases in the United States may be underestimated by 20%.)
- Article (not peer-reviewed): Continuing Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Scarcity in New York by New York State Health Foundation (NYS Health, 2021), available at https://nyshealthfoundation.org/resource/continuing-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-food-scarcity-in-new-york/?utm_source=Food%20Scarcity%20Update%20June%202021&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Food%20Scarcity%20Update%20June%202021#introduction . (NOTE: This is a research article from a non-profit organization that may be useful for information on scarcity of food and food resources in NYC resulting from the pandemic.)
- Article (governmental): COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Adults — United States, December 14, 2020–May 22, 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7025e1.htm?s_cid=mm7025e1_w
- Article (peer-reviewed): Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers After a Single Dose of mRNA-1273 Vaccine by K. Gupta, W. O’Brien, P. Bellino, et al., (JAMA Network Open, June 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2781173
- Health Services Administration and Provision
- Website: Nine National Organizations Call for Action to Implement Crisis Standards of Care During COVID-19 Surge by National Academy of Medicine (Dec. 18, 2020), available at https://nam.edu/national-organizations-call-for-action-to-implement-crisis-standards-of-care-during-covid-19-surge/ . (NOTE: The NAM lists recommendation for state governments, state health departments, and health care systems.)
- Article (peer-reviewed): Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic by C.M. Whaley, M.F. Pera, J. Cantor, et al., (JAMA, November 2020), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2772537
- Article (governmental): First Month of COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring — United States, December 14, 2020–January 13, 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7008e3.htm?s_cid=mm7008e3_w (NOTE: This MMWR article discusses very reassuring results from the first month of safety data for the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines administered in the U.S.)
- Article (governmental): Updated Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Use of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine After Reports of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Among Vaccine Recipients — United States, April 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7017e4.htm?s_cid=mm7017e4_w .
- Website: COVID-19 continues to disrupt essential health services in 90% of countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) (April 23, 2021), available at https://www.who.int/news/item/23-04-2021-covid-19-continues-to-disrupt-essential-health-services-in-90-of-countries (NOTE: This information from WHO is based on a survey of “63 core health services across delivery platforms and health areas.” The survey was administered to 216 countries and territories across the six global regions identified by WHO.)
- Website (with Live Updates): Emerging Stronger After COVID-19: Priorities for Health System Transformation (National Academies of Medicine, 2021), available at https://nam.edu/programs/value-science-driven-health-care/emerging-stronger-after-covid-19-priorities-for-health-system-transformation/ . (NOTE: Per the authors, this site will provide “a new series of expert papers focused on opportunities to transform health, health care, and biomedical science in the wake of the pandemic.”)
- Research Letter (peer-reviewed): Trends in Filled Naloxone Prescriptions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States by A. L. O’Donoghue, N. Biswas, T. Dechen, et al., (JAMA Health Forum, May 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2779948 .
- Discussion Paper (peer-reviewed): Health Care Payers COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs by M. McClellan, R. Rajkumar, M. Couch, et al., (National Academy of Medicine, May 2021), available at https://nam.edu/health-care-payers-covid-19-impact-assessment-lessons-learned-and-compelling-needs/ .
- Article (peer-reviewed): US Trends in COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Before and After Reopening Economies by S. Gupta, A. Georgiou, S. Sen, et al. (JAMA Health Forum, June 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2781505
- Article (peer-reviewed): The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Antigen Testing by K. Hanson, O. Altayar, A. Caliendo, et al. (Clinical Infectious Diseases, June 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2781505
- Article (peer-reviewed): Treatment of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by A.J. McArdle, O. Vito, H. Patel, et al., (NEJM, June 2021), available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2102968?query=featured_home
- Academic and Administrative Support
- Article (peer-reviewed): Assessment of a COVID-19 Control Plan on an Urban University Campus During a Second Wave of the Pandemic by D.H. Hamer, L.F. White, H.E. Jenkins, et al. (JAMA Network Open, June 2021), available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2781349
- Resource list: Supporting Students During COVID-19: Resources for Remote Learning (Emerson Collective, 2020), available at https://www.emersoncollective.com/covid19-resources-for-remote-learning/
- Resource list: Supporting DACA Recipients: Resources for DACA Advocacy (Emerson Collective, 2020), available at https://www.emersoncollective.com/covid19-resources-for-daca-advocacy/
- Website: UNESCO Distance Learning Solutions (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 2020), available at https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/solutions
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
- Webinar: The Big 7: Healthy Emotion Regulation during Uncertain Times by Marc Brackett, Ph.D. (American Federation of Teachers, 2020), available at https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/big-7-healthy-emotion-regulation-webina
- Website: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Coping With Stress (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020), available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fprepare%2Fmanaging-stress-anxiety.html
- Article (not peer-reviewed): COVID Long Haulers Describe the Devastating Aftereffects of the Disease by J. Gale (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2020), available at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-09/coronavirus-long-haulers-tell-us-their-symptoms-and-the-aftereffects-of-disease (NOTE: Various peer-reviewed and evidence-based studies are cited in this special report.)
- Article (governmental): Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, March–April 2021 (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report [MMWR], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2021), available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7026e1.htm?s_cid=mm7026e1_w