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COVID-19

Welcome to the WACHS Library guide on COVID-19

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Australia

International

Australia's vaccination program

AUS: Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) COVID-19 Working Group
Provides advice to the Minister for Health on the immunisation program for COVID-19 vaccines as they become available in Australia

Portals

Promotional materials

AUS: NCIRS (National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance) > Recommendations for developing COVID-19 vaccine communication materials
AUS: NCIRS (National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance) > COVID-19 vaccination posters
Templates for vaccination clinic signs - wayfinding, location, hours of operation

COVID-19 vaccines

Development & supply

AUS: Department of Health - Australia's vaccine agreements
AUS: The COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments for Australia – Science and Industry Technical Advisory Group
Provides advice to the Australian Government on the purchasing and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments

Portals

News | Updates

AUS: Department of Health > Subscribe to COVID-19 vaccines updates
Set up an e-mail notification to be updated on the latest vaccine developments and information from the Australian Government
AUS: TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) > COVID-19 vaccine: News and updates
Read the latest COVID-19 vaccine news and other updates from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

Portals

Topics

Clinical Management

Health Technology Assessment

US: ATSM (American Society for Testing and Materials) Standards & COVID-19
ASTM International is providing no-cost public access to important ASTM standards used in the production and testing of personal protective equipment - including face masks, medical gowns, gloves, and hand sanitizers

Infection Prevention & Control

WHO: Infection prevention and control during health care when COVID-19 is suspected. Interim guidance. 19 March 2020. WHO REFERENCE NUMBER: WHO/2019-nCoV/IPC/2020.3

Public Health

Vaccines

AUS: NCIRS (National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance) > COVID-19 vaccination guidelines and factsheets
Covers both clinical and administrative areas

Summaries

Pathfinder

McMasters University - COVID-END: Resources to support decision makers

Inventory of best evidence syntheses for public health measures (eg masks); clinical management of COVID-19 (eg prescription drugs and pandemic related conditions (eg mental health and addiction issues); health system arrangements (eg capacity surge, telehealth); and economic and social response
Living hub of COVID-19 knowledge hubs which is a searchable database of publically available datasets/portals/platforms whose main aim is to collate and share relevant data, research and other types of evidence related to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the list of hubs will be updated periodically, it is referred to as a "living hub

Reviews

Syntheses | Systematic Reviews

Rapid Reviews

Topics

Community Care | Social Care

Drug Interactions | Drug Treatments

UK: NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) > Coronavirus 19 > Rapid evidence summaries
These look at the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 treatments
University of Basel > Department of Clinical Research - COVID-evidence database
A continuously updated database of the worldwide available evidence on interventions for COVID-19. We provide information about worldwide planned, ongoing, and completed trials on any intervention to treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2-infections
University of Liverpool: COVID-19 Drug interactions
The Liverpool Drug Interaction Group was established in 1999 by members of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool to provide a freely available drug-drug interaction resource for drugs used to treat HIV infection. We provide a clinically useful, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based drug-drug interaction resource, freely available to healthcare workers, patients and researchers

Emergency Care | Clinical Care

Cochrane: Special collections > Coronavirus (COVID-19): Evidence relevant to critical care
AUS/NZ: SAS (Safe Airway Society) > Airway management infographics
Lexi Lab Tests [UpToDate]
Lab test & diagnostic procedures for COVID-19

Health Technology Assessments

UK: NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) > Coronavirus 19 > Medtech innovation briefings
Innovative technologies that have been identified as being potentially useful during the pandemic

Infection Control & Prevention

Cochrane: Special collections > Coronavirus (COVID-19): Infection control and prevention measures

Public Health - Planning | Management | Communication

COVID-19 Risk communication hub > Guidance, resources and tools
Developed by Resolve to Save Lives & Vital Strategies, the Hub offers scientifically accurate, adaptable messages to help people be prepared and stay informed
Lexi Patient Education [UpToDate]
Patient education resources in English and other languages including Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese
MyAus COVID-19 app
The MyAus COVID-19 app has been developed by the Migration Council of Australia (MCA) for Australia's culturally and linguistically diverse communities to provide information about COVID-19
Partnership for Healthy Cities COVID-19 Response Center
The Partnership for Healthy Cities COVID-19 Response Center offers cities practical guidance in four technical areas: Surveillance & epidemiology; Communications; Public health and social measures; Legal and ethical considerations. It is a global network of 70 cities supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the WHO and Vital Strategies
US National Academy of Medicine
Emerging Stronger After COVID-19: Priorities for Health System Transformation - a series of expert papers. These papers include analysis of public health; care systems; research; health payers; clinicians; quality, safety, and standards organizations; health product manufacturers and innovators; patients, families, and communities; and digital health

Updates | Resource Hubs

Databases

TRIP (Turning Research into Evidence) - COVID-19 subset

Coronavirus Research Database (ProQuest)

Search Filters

COVID-19 Literature searches
Edited and selected by Kristin LaLonde, AHIP. These search strings are provided via the good will of health information professionals, not from Medlical Library Association (US) as an organization
COVID-19 Live literature searches - PubMed
This page provides automatic PubMed searches on a range of 35 + COVID-19 topics. Collated by the Australian Library and Information Association
COVID-19 Literature search bank
A central repository for literature searches on COVID-19, based on good quality searches and strategies developed by expert searchers | UK: NHS > Health Education England - Library and Knowledge Services

COVID-19 Article Collections (from major publishers)

Preprint

Curated

Wolters Kluwer: Curated MEDLINE content for COVID-19

Publishers

Cambridge University Press: Coronavirus free access collection
Elsevier: Latest articles on COVID-19 from ScienceDirect
Oxford University Press: COVID-19
Wellcome Open Research: Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Wiley: Covid-19: Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
Wiley: COVID-19 > Special Collections
Hover over the "special collections" heading and and an extensive topical list is displayed

Trial Registries

Trial Trackers

Vaccine Tracker

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine > Vaccine Centre - COVID-19 vaccine tracker
This tracker was developed o follow candidates as they progress through the development pipeline
Lexicomp/UpToDate > Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Tracker
Updated 2021 Jun 14

Research Roadmap

WHO. A coordinated global research map: 2019 novel coronavirus. 2020 Mar

Research Project Trackers

UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) + Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Protection (GLOPID-R): COVID-19 Research project tracker
UKCDR and GloPID-R have developed a live database of funded research projects on COVID-19, as part of the COVID CIRCLE initiative, that will help funders and researchers identify gaps and opportunities and inform future research investments or coordination needs
UKCDR > Baseline results of a living systematic review for COVID-19 funded research projects. 2020 Aug
This living systematic review aims to supplement the COVID-19 research project tracker database by providing an open accessible and frequently updated resource summarising the characteristics of the COVID-19 funded research portfolio
Nuffield Foundation > Research - COVID-19 projects
Current ongoing social policy research projects relating to COVID-19 funded by Nuffield Foundation

Research Collaboration Tools

Australian Academy of Science: COVID-19 expert database
A searchable database that has been created to provide a mechanism for governments, the business sector, the research sector, and other decision-makers to easily access the expertise they need to inform their decision making
Elsevier: Research collaborators & institutions related to Coronavirus epidemic
A searchable database, the aim of which is to identify potential research experts or collaborators in areas related to the coronavirus epidemic across basic science, translational research, or clinical practice.
International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC)
ISARIC provides a collaborative platform through which global, patient‐oriented clinical studies can be developed, executed and shared

Clinical Research Resources

Epidemiology Reports

Dashboards

Australia

International

University of Minnesota > CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) : COVID-19 Maps & visuals
Includes links to both the WHO's and John Hopkins COVID-19 global case maps. Collated by CIDRAP, University of Minnesota

Datasets & Statistics

AUS: CSIRO > Library Service: Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2) Research data & web resources
Curated by Katie Hannan, Data Librarian at CSIRO, this open access resource covers The resource list covers data sources in Australia and worldwide, protein data, genomic data, dashboards and visualisations, software, websites, open research datasets and more

International

EUR: COVID-19 Data portal
US: National Institutes of Health (NIH) > Office of Data Science & Strategy - Open-access data and computational resources to address COVID-19
Surgo Foundation. COVID-19 toolkit
This website offers a toolkit of large-scale datasets and actionable analysis for government officials, policymakers, and citizens from the national level to the hyper-local
GISAID > Enabling rapid and open access to epidemic and pandemic virus data
Nextstrain SARS-CoV-2 resources
US: National Library of Medicine > NCBI Virus - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 data hub

WACHS Library: COVID-19

COVID-19

Welcome to the WACHS Library guide on COVID-19

Australia

International

Australia's vaccination program

Guidelines

Strategy

Safety monitoring

Portals

Promotional materials

COVID-19 vaccines

Development & supply

Portals

News | Updates

Portals

Topics

Clinical Management

Health Technology Assessment

Infection Prevention & Control

Public Health

Vaccines

Summaries

Pathfinder

Inventory of best evidence syntheses for public health measures (eg masks); clinical management of COVID-19 (eg prescription drugs and pandemic related conditions (eg mental health and addiction issues); health system arrangements (eg capacity surge, telehealth); and economic and social response

Reviews

Syntheses | Systematic Reviews

Rapid Reviews

Topics

Community Care | Social Care

Drug Interactions | Drug Treatments

Emergency Care | Clinical Care

Health Technology Assessments

Infection Control & Prevention

Public Health - Planning | Management | Communication

Updates | Resource Hubs

Databases

Search Filters

COVID-19 Article Collections (from major publishers)

Preprint

Curated

Publishers

Trial Registries

Trial Trackers

Vaccine Tracker

Research Roadmap

Research Project Trackers

Research Collaboration Tools

Clinical Research Resources

Epidemiology Reports

Dashboards

Australia

International

Datasets & Statistics

International