Best Websites & Resources for Coronavirus/Covid-19 Updates

Given the plethora of resources out there to keep people informed, we thought we would give you the best “map” of all the resources available

Corona Death & Case Counts

• The Best Resource on the Web for Up to the Minute Deaths & Confirmed Cases – Johns Hopkins University

• The Best Resource for Up to Date Deaths and Cases in the United States – New York Times

Top News Networks and Media Corona Virus Updates

• #1 AP News – Virus Outbreak
• #2 NYT’s “The Coronavirus Outbreak”
• #3 Reuters Breaking News (nothing specific to Corona at this point)
• #4 WSJ Coronavirus
• #5 Coronavirus Outbreak Graphically on Bloomberg
• #6 BBC normally, but no focuses on Coronavirus at this point
• #7 AFP (Agence France Presse)
• #8 CNN Corona Virus Results
• #9 Washington Post Coronavirus
• #10 TMZ Coronavirus
• #20 Fox News Coronavirus (to try and be balanced)
• What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus – The Atlantic

This ranking is a result of this post re: the most influential news publications in the world

Top Social Network Updates on Covid-19

• Facebook’s Covid-19 Information Center

• LinkedIn’s Coronavirus Official Updates

• Quora’s MANY Resources:

  • Spaces:

    • Quora’s Coronavirus Space – 338.8k following (as of 3/21/2020)

    • Coronavirus Watch – 90.6k following (as of 3/21/2020)

    • Covid-19 Coronavirus Data – 9.4k following (as of 3/21/2020)

    • Coronavirus USA – 3.3k following (as of 3/21/2020)

  • Topics

    • Infectious Diseases: Spaces, Answers & Most Viewed Writers – 694.5k following as of 3/21/2020

    • Virology: Answers & Most Viewed Writers – 203.4k following as of 3/21/2020

    • Epidemiology: Answers & Most Viewed Writers – 144.7k following as of 3/21/2020

    • COVID-19 Spaces, Answers & Most Viewed Writers

• Reddit

  • Topics
    • Coronavirus – 1.4 million members
    • China_Flu – 102k members
    • CoronavirusMemes – 60.9k members
    • CoronavirusUS – 42.5k members
    • CoronavirusCA – 13.5k members
    • CoronavirusWA – 12.6k members
    • CoronaVirusTX – 10k members
    • CoronavirusNewYork – 4.4k members
    • CoronavirusCanada – 3.8k members
    • CoronavirusMidWest – 3.7k members
  •  AMAs
    • Bill Gates’ AMA on Reddit on 3/18/2020
    • (related, but not reddit) GatesNotes Summary of the Top 31 Questions & Answers

Facebook Groups on Coronavirus

• CoronaVirus Updates – 61,273 members
• Global CORONAVIRUS / COVID-19 News & Updates
• Coronavirus outbreak: Covid-19 – Hong Kong based (~26,418 members)
• CoronaVirusInformation COVID-19 – 9905 members – note: private group

Top Organizational Updates by Non-Profits

• The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org^® Coronavirus Coverage

Governmental Updates on Corona Virus – TBA

• LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus

Business Updates re: Corona Virus – TBA

The Best Videos on Corona Virus

• Bill Gates warning  us that we’re not ready on TED on Apr 3, 2015

Medical Breakthroughs/Cures for Corona/Covid-19

• UW researchers work to understand how and why coronavirus kills

• The FDA has authorized the first rapid “point-of-care” test for the novel coronavirus that can deliver results in 45 minutes.

• Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19 treatments explained

• FDA testing coronavirus treatments, including chloroquine, plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients

• French study finds anti-malarial and antibiotic combo could reduce COVID-19 duration

• Japanese flu drug appears ‘effective’ in coronavirus treatment in Chinese clinical trials

• Pfizer and BioNTech announce joint development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine

• New study of COVID-19 patient’s immune response could inform future treatment

• Scanwell aims to launch at-home 15-minute coronavirus test, but it still needs FDA approval

Learning about Corona Virus

• COVID-19: Resources to help people learn on YouTube

Note: this list is obviously not full, but as a result of the lack of time, we’ll supply you with what we have thus far.  We’ll do our best to update this with a fuller list like we’ve done with our initial posts: & .

We just added a county & state specific corona cases mapper for the United States.

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