COVID-19 Models, Resources, Articles & Toolkits


Links to the DM COVID topic

Web page that houses links to the DM COVID topic, PDF's of Dynamic Health Skills related to disease prevention, current epidemiology statistics, blog content created by the editorial team and links to external resources.

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COVID-19: Content free to access

As a leading publisher of trusted science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences research, Taylor & Francis is committed to helping public health authorities, researchers, clinicians and the general public contain and manage the spread of COVID-19.

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COVID-19 ICU preparation simulation

To help hospitals facing unprecedented demand for intensive-care beds to treat COVID-19 patients, SIMUL8 have developed a free simulation model to help assess how many ICU beds and surge capacity will be needed to meet demand as case numbers rise.

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Free ICU capacity modelling script

A simple script to generate a projection of deaths arising from insufficient acute/ICU capacity for a given trajectory of covid19 cases requiring hospitalisation, and to model the effect of various user-defined mitigating scenarios.

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COVID-19 information & updates

Free open initiative for health care professionals information portal created to support the immediate need for trusted information. Comprises of news feeds and resources from trusted bodies of authority.

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Free COVID-19 open research dataset

A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a free resource of over 45,000 scholarly articles, including over 33,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.

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Information on COVID-19 and Pandemics

Governments are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently.

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Free Covid-19 simulator

A what-if simulation so that you can analyse various scenarios to deepen your understanding of epidemic policy implications.

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Open access to research findings and data

The Royal Society is one of several signatories to the Wellcome statement and their collective aim is to ensure that the relevant research and data are shared rapidly and openly in order to inform the worldwide public health response and to help save lives. 

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The Coronavirus Tech handbook

The Coronavirus Tech handbook is a crowd-sourced library for technologists, civic organizations, public and private institutions, researchers, and specialists of all kinds working on responses to the pandemic. It is a rapidly evolving resource with thousands of expert contributors.

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Collaboration and competition in Covid-19 response

A blog post on some considerations for digital tech interventions to combat Covid-19, particularly through crowdsourcing. Concludes with the following resource lists: recommended reliable information on Covid-19; sample of international crowd-sourcing initiatives (including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and global); and global Covid-19 mapping and recording initiatives.

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COVID-19 Resource Hub

Public, private and social sector organisations who work in partnership have launched this resource hub to bring together a response to the measures taken to reduce deaths from the disease and contain its spread.

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Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker

Governments are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently.

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Covid-19 time sheets series data

This dataset includes time-series data tracking the number of people affected by COVID-19 worldwide, including confirmed tested cases of Coronavirus infection, how many have reportedly died while sick with Coronavirus and the number of people who have reportedly recovered from it

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British Red Cross COVID-19 Vulnerability Index

Prototype COVID-19 vulnerability index, modelling clinical vulnerability and social vulnerability for wards and Local Authorities in the UK.

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International Open Data Standard for COVID-19

This Open Standard’s objectives are to ensure public trust and privacy and maintained at all times, and that all efforts by different groups are asking the right, interoperable questions from the public/policymakers.

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Cambridge Science/Tech Covid19 response

Slack channel to discuss and share information related to COVID-19

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Alan Turing Institute and collaborators

Citizen's logbook ("Create COVID-19 Symptom Tracker Colour Calendar#1), also seeking additional input from medical researchers, survey designers, mass observation study researchers etc

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