COVID-19 Resources Page: Hyperlinked Articles and Questions


COVID-19 Hyperlinked Articles with Key Points

Below is a summary of Key Points along with their hyperlinks.

I have also listed the questions which can be hyperlinked directly into the site

 

#1 COVID-19:  Can a novel coronavirus epidemic be contained?

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1. Introduction Information to the COVID-19 Outbreak
  2. What are Coronaviruses? Other Examples of Significant Coronaviruses
  3. Early Considerations and Risk of Transmission in the US

#2 COVID-19:  Tips to Understanding the (Next) Pandemic

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1.  A review of Epidemiology
  2.  The Stages of an Outbreak
  3.  Ways to Begin thinking about protecting yourself from infection

#3 COVID-19:  Prelude to a Pandemic

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1.  Definition of Case Fatality Rate (CFR)
  2.  Discussion of COVID-19 CFR from the Wuhan outbreak cases
  3.  Ways in which COVID-19 is spread, respiratory droplets, surface and fomite
  4.  Diagnostic modalities available for COVID-19, CT scan and PCR

#4 Pandemic COVID-19:  Applying Early Lessons Learned

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1.  Challenges with Containment related to Transmission: cough, personal cloud
  2.  Challenges with Case Fatality Rates
  3.  Importance of Protecting High Risk Populations Including Healthcare Workers and  Long-term care Residents
  4.  COVID-19 and Outbreak of Fear

#5 Patient Information:  Protecting Yourself From Viral Infection (Including COVID-19)

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1.  What is Coronavirus?
  2.  How is COVID-19 spread?
  3.  How Can I prevent the spread or protect myself?
  4.  Can I get a viral infection after handling a package from someone who was infectious or that was delivered from a country where there is a high caseload?
  5. What are the signs of symptoms of viruses, including COVID-19?
  6. What should I do about my travel plans?

#6 Fear in the Age of Coronavirus:  Reasons why COVID-19 is hitting our self-preservation nerve

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1.  Characteristics of COVID-19 disease that creates fear

#7 COVID-19: Amid the Rising Caseload in the United States, the Country Braces Itself

Key Points Addressed in Article

  1. What does “flatten the curve mean?”
  2. How is a virus like a natural disaster?
  3. What are the features of social distancing?
  4. What does a PCR mean and how sensitive is it?
  5. What are the benefits of Scaling up Tests?
  6. What other tests can be used?

#8 Covid-19: From Zoonotic Spillover to Host and Pathogen Interaction in Human Disease

Key Points Answered in this Article

  1. What constitutes a spillover?
  2. What are the contributing factors to an emerging infectious disease?
  3. How does SARS-CoV-2 cause infection in human pneumocytes
  4. What are the contributing factors to more severe disease.

Question/Topic List:

  1. Introduction Information to the COVID-19 Outbreak
  2. What are Coronaviruses? Other Examples of Significant Coronaviruses
  3. Early Considerations and Risk of Transmission in the US
  4. A review of Epidemiology
  5. The Stages of an Outbreak
  6. Ways to Begin thinking about protecting yourself from infection
  7. Definition of Case Fatality Rate (CFR)
  8. Discussion of COVID-19 CFR from the Wuhan outbreak cases
  9. Ways in which COVID-19 is spread, respiratory droplets, surface and fomite
  10. Diagnostic modalities available for COVID-19, CT scan and PCR
  11.  Challenges with Containment related to Transmission: cough, personal cloud
  12.  Challenges with Case Fatality Rates
  13.  Importance of Protecting High Risk Populations Including Healthcare Workers and  Long-term care Residents
  14. COVID-19 and Outbreak of Fear
  15.  What is Coronavirus?
  16.  How is COVID-19 spread?
  17.  How Can I prevent the spread or protect myself?
  18.  Can I get a viral infection after handling a package from someone who was infectious or that was delivered from a country where there is a high caseload?
  19. What are the signs of symptoms of viruses, including COVID-19?
  20. What should I do about my travel plans?
  21. Characteristics of COVID-19 disease that creates fear
  1. What does “flatten the curve mean?”
  2. How is a virus like a natural disaster?
  3. What are the features of social distancing?
  4. What does a PCR mean and how sensitive is it?
  5. What are the benefits of Scaling up Tests?
  6. What other tests can be used?
  7. What constitutes a spillover?
  8. What are the contributing factors to an emerging infectious disease?
  9. How does SARS-CoV-2 cause infection in human pneumocytes
  10. What are the contributing factors to more severe disease.