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

22. What does “flatten the curve mean?”
23. How is a virus like a natural disaster?
24. What are the features of social distancing?
25. What does a PCR mean and how sensitive is it?
26. What are the benefits of Scaling up Tests?
27. What other tests can be used?
28. What constitutes a spillover?
29. What are the contributing factors to an emerging infectious disease?
30. How does SARS-CoV-2 cause infection in human pneumocytes
31. What are the contributing factors to more severe disease.