A curated list of links related to the Covid19 outbreak. Advice, free stuff, explainers, maybe some news. An attempt to collate useful resources minus the hype and panic. Likely to be UK centric. Hope this helps!

Lists (like this one) #

• https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

Volunteering #

• Mutual Aid - https://covidmutualaid.org
• Project ideas - https://helpwithcovid.com
• Folding@Home - https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms
• Neighbourly - https://www.neighbourly.com/

Services #

• London grocery delivery aggregator - https://ldn.delivery/

Screening #

• Apple - https://www.apple.com/covid19
• JoinZoe - https://covid.joinzoe.com
• NHS - https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19

Explainers #

Useful blog posts, articles, threads to understanding the epidemic and develop better mental models.

• Exponential growth and epidemics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
• How to flatten the growth curve - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator
• Getting an intuition of how to contain covid19 - https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/outbreak
• Modelling the spread in UK (and US) - https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1240629424871047168
• How much cash small businesses tend to have - https://twitter.com/CardiffGarcia/status/1239965656172228608
• The Hammer and the dance - https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
• Coronavirus mutations - https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1242628550563250176
• Problems of supplying enough PPE - https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1242490035707895808
• Simulating an epidemic - https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs

Stats #

• Financial Times Daily Coverage - https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
• Global Change Data Lab - https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
• John Hopkins University - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
• Public Health England - https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14
• Statnews - https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/26/covid-19-tracker

Research #

• Treatments & vaccines - https://golden.com/wiki/Cluster%3A_COVID-19-ZXJX9AR#COVID-19-treatments-and-vaccines_Lists-of-potential-treatments-vaccines-and-diagnostics-of-COVID-19-in-development
• NLP generated daily summaries of research papers - https://covid19primer.com/
• Keyword search engine for medRxiv and bioRxiv - http://biomed-sanity.com/

Models #

• Imperial College London - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf
• John Hopkins University - https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov-model-2

Press Releases #

Commonly used services.

• Slack - https://slackhq.com/business-continuity-plan-covid-19
• Sainsbury’s - https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2020/18-03-20-feed-the-nation
• Ocado - https://www.ocado.com/content/coronavirus-information-and-updates-167560
• Tesco - https://www.tescoplc.com/news/2020/covid-19-a-message-to-our-customers-from-dave-lewis-tesco-ceo

Useful Twitter Accounts #

Accounts that tweet helpful and factual updates.

• https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch
• https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit
• https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
• https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson
• https://twitter.com/coronaviruscare
• https://twitter.com/devisridhar

Palate Cleansers #

• Penguins openly explore aquarium closed due to coronavirus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVfTGFBJ8a8

Free Stuff #

• Headspace - free meditations - https://www.headspace.com/covid-19
• Brain.fm - 1 month free - https://www.brain.fm/login?next=/app/refer-a-friend
• Cambridge University Press - All Cambridge Core books free - https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks

Remote Work #

• Help for small businesses - https://www.smbhelp.com
• Remote working - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/blog/8-tips-working-remote

Home Exercise #

• Pavel Tsatsouline - Enter the Kettlebell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKx8xE8jJZs
• Paul Wade - Convict Conditioning - https://archive.org/details/ConvictConditioning-HowToBustFreeOfAllWeaknessUsingTheLostSecretsOfSupremeSurvival_201711/mode/2up