Educate Yourself on COVID-19 with These Trusted Resources

As COVID-19 continues to grip the globe, the sheer amount of information — and, more troublingly, misinformation — seems to grow exponentially on a day-by-day basis.

To educate yourself, here are a few of the best resources for accessing high-quality, unbiased information:

Scientific and medical publications and research

• The Lancet’s COVID-19 resource center
• Scientific American
• Nature’s weekly “COVID-19 Research in Brief” summaries
• Springer Nature’s SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 center
• Elsevier’s Novel Coronavirus Information Center

Click here for a walk-through of how to use Elsevier:

Pharmaceutical industry news

• FiercePharma
• BioPharma Dive
• PharmaTimes

COVID-19 tracking and general information

• Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center
• National Institutes of Health Coronavirus (COVID-19) page
• The New York Times Coronavirus coverage
• NYC Health Department COVID-19 data

For those on Twitter, this list of trusted public health officials, epidemiologists, virologists, and family doctors is a good starting point to build a feed that provides informative COVID-19 news as it comes in.

Share this article with others to help them access reliable sources of COVID-19 news. Let us know in the comments: Where do you go for COVID-19 coverage you trust?

—Lorelei Yang

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