Sound data in the evolving Corona-crisis
Updated: Mar 31, 2020
In order to be well informed during the crisis, you might want to rely on sound data. Stay clear of panic as well as overconfidence during the current Corona virus-outbreak:
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine COVID-tracker: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/.
COVID background-analyses: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus.
Financial Times-visualizations: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest.
An excellent source on public health-options for managing Covid-19: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56.
Impact of social distancing in the US, as measured by mobile phone-clustering: https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard.
Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution (COVID-19): https://nextstrain.org/.
Psychological research and COVID-19: https://main-researchdigest-bps.content.pugpig.com/2020/03/26/how-psychology-researchers-are-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/pugpig_index.html.
Tools for identifying COVID-19-related fake news: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/03/27/investigating-coronavirus-fakes-and-disinfo-here-are-some-tools-for-you/.
Research visualization: https://covid-19.kenedict.com/.
COVID-19 and political violence (incident tracker): https://acleddata.com/analysis/covid-19-disorder-tracker/?utm_source=Armed+Conflict+Location+%26+Event+Data+Project&utm_campaign=90383a3cec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_21_06_50_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26a454684a-90383a3cec-83399239.
Policy-trackers
State-/ local activity dashboard (US): https://www.multistate.us/pages/covid-19-policy-tracker.
OECD COVID-19-website: http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/.
Oxford (UK) University Government response tracker: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker.
Global Labour Law tracker: https://www.covid19globalemployer.com/?utm_campaign=PostBeyond&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_term=%23309437.
Bioethics (the University of Pittsburg Center for Bioethics & Health Law): http://bioethics.pitt.edu/covid-19-ethics-resources.
Markets
CNN Coronavirus markets dashboard: https://www.cnn.com/business/markets/coronavirus.
In terms of coordinated responses to similar crises, the results of "serious games" on pandemics provide arguments that coordination and cooperation finally do the job!
The same research shows that it needs considerable efforts to arrive at that point: https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-020-00547-6.
See also the live streams os this 2018 tabletop exercise (Clade X): http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/livestream.
For further resources on "serious gaming" of COVID-19 see: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/covid-19-serious-gaming-resources/.
Stay reasonable and healthy!
