An Interdisciplinary List of Resources for COVID-19 Research

Subscription based: Short for Strategic Forecasting this service provides up-to-date geopolitical analysis and forecasts focused on international political, economic and security issues. The section on coronavirus is under "Worldview".

Article by Xu Zhangrun in English translation (political critique of Xi Jinping and the handling of the Coronavirus outbreak)

Contains press releases, statements, and information related to U.S. response to COVID-19.

Teaching across the digital divide.

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) is tracking the budgetary and economic consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This page summarizes projected revenue shortfalls and revised estimates by state and fiscal year (FY).

Repository for data examining the social, behavioral, public health, and economic impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic.

Information and data related to policy decisions of OECD members in responding to COVID-19

As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are racing to develop and implement novel public-facing technology solutions, including digital contact tracing technology. These technological products may aid public health surveillance and containment strategies for this pandemic and become part of the larger toolbox for future infectious outbreak prevention and control. As technology evolves in an effort to meet our current moment, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologies—a rapid research and expert consensus group effort led by Dr. Jeffrey Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in collaboration with the university's Center for Health Security—carried out an in-depth analysis of the technology and the issues it raises. Drawing on this analysis, they produced a report that includes detailed recommendations for technology companies, policymakers, institutions, employers, and the public. The project brings together perspectives from bioethics, health security, public health, technology development, engineering, public policy, and law to wrestle with the complex interactions of the many facets of the technology and its applications. This team of experts from Johns Hopkins University and other world-renowned institutions has crafted clear and detailed guidelines to help manage the creation, implementation, and application of digital contact tracing. Digital Contact Tracing Technology for Pandemic Response is the essential resource for this fast-moving crisis.

Documents regional, social responses to the pandemic, which are critical in understanding the scope of the pandemic’s humanitarian, socioeconomic, and cultural impact. With an emphasis on websites produced by underrepresented ethnicities and stateless groups, the Archive covers (but is not limited to): sites published by non-governmental organizations that focus on public health, humanitarian relief, and education; sites published by established and amateur artists in any realm of cultural production; sites published by local news sources; sites published by civil society across and representatives; and relevant blogs and social media pages.

collects systematic information on policy measures that governments have taken to tackle COVID-19. The different policy responses are tracked since 1 January 2020, cover more than 180 countries and are coded into 23 indicators, such as school closures, travel restrictions, vaccination policy. These policies are recorded on a scale to reflect the extent of government action, and scores are aggregated into a suite of policy indices. The data can help decision-makers and citizens understand governmental responses in a consistent way, aiding efforts to fight the pandemic.

Includes information on a wide variety of economic topics as they pertain to COVID-19. Particularly useful for economic responses, emergency financial assistance, and fiscal responses.

LACCOM is a tool from the Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies, documenting the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean across three rubrics: Governance and the Rule of Law, Growth and Innovation, and Social and Cultural Inclusion.

Global directory of over several hundred policy trackers and surveys related to COVID-19. This novel collection is designed to assist researchers and policy-makers in keeping track of a rapidly growing number of data sources. You can search and identify relevant information resources, such as datasets, surveys, and systematic collections, across different areas, countries and data types.

Provides maps of county level data, subscription based- do a search for COVID to find resources specific to the virus. They will be launching a free COVID-19 resource soon.

Access important data related to the pandemic with PolicyMap.

Rutgers-Eagleton-Poll - Willingness to get COVID-19 vaccine. New Jersey - November, 2020.

from Jason Oliver Chang, Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Curated view into the early-stage research to help researchers, public health authorities, clinicians and the public understand, contain and manage this disease. Rapidly evolving healthcare emergencies necessitate the quick dissemination of research. The growing role of early-stage research, often referred to as preprints, was acknowledged in the Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks as a way of “accelerating the dissemination of scientific findings to support responses to infectious disease outbreaks". Research on SSRN is free to download and upload. It is important to note that these papers have not benefited from the pivotal role of peer-review, which validates and improves the quality of final published journal articles.

"The UN provides new information as it becomes available, and we are sharing the latest reports and policy briefs here on UN iLibrary. These publications bring together analysis from across the UN system and provide concrete ideas for how to address the consequences and even seize opportunities amid the crisis." Includes working papers on a wide variety of topics.

International digital project that showcases and investigates the diverse ways in which SARS-Cov2 and the COVID-19 pandemic is visualized and the inequalities it makes visible.

Includes a wide variety of social and economic issues as pertains to COVID-19.

The Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to provide CORD-19, a free resource of more than 280,000 scholarly articles about the novel coronavirus for use by the global research community.

An arXiv.org link from the Computer and Society sub-discipline.

Includes case and testing data by county from Health and Human Services.

Repository for data examining the social, behavioral, public health, and economic impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic.

A Free, Open Resource for the Global Research Community. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 44,000 scholarly articles, including over 29,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.

Database of state policies on closures, shelter-in-place orders, housing protections, changes to Medicaid and SNAP, physical distancing closures, reopening, and more created by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health. Policies included are state-wide directives or mandates, not guidance or recommendations. In order for a policy to be included, it must apply to the entire state. State policy source documentation can be found at: tinyurl.com/statepolicysources.

Race and ethnicity data pertaining to COVID in the U.S.

Includes data by state on tests, hospitalizations, in ICU, on ventilators, and outcomes.

Indicates vulnerability of countries to spread of the COVID-19 virus. It is compiled by Knoema for 148 countries.

Provides details of central banks' monetary policy responses to Covid-19.

Tracks governments’ responses to COVID-19 all around the world. The dataset is at the country-level and covers the January-July 2020 period; it is updated on a monthly basis. It tracks 20 measures – 13 public health measures and 7 economic measures – taken by 228 governments. The tracking of the measures allows creating an index of the rigidity of public health measures and an index of economic response to the pandemic. The objective of the dataset is both to inform citizens and to help researchers and governments in fighting the pandemic.

Contains individual responses from nationally representative surveys of the general public about symptoms, testing, self-isolation, social distancing and behavior. Contextual data includes: gender, age, region (within country), number of people in the household, children in household, health conditions, working status and the date of the survey response. A weighting variable is also provided, typically based on age, gender and region. For obvious reasons, people with severe symptoms, people who are / have been hospitalised and some other hard to reach groups will be under-represented in the sample. The files contain anonymized respondent level data files from surveys conducted from the 31st March 2020 to date.

Measures public health government responses to COVID-19 at all levels of government throughout the world. The PPI measure considers the extent of COVID-19 policy responses in the following categories: state of emergencies, border closures, school closures, social gathering and social distancing limitations, home-bound policies, medical isolation policies, closure/restriction of businesses and services, and mandatory personal protection equipment. The coding for public health policies is based on government websites and reputable news sources reporting adoption of these policies.

Data related to: cases, deaths, tests, mortality risk, policy, data visualizations, and links to datasets.

Includes loan-level data, including business names, addresses, NAICS codes, zip codes, business type, demographic data, non-profit information, name of lender, jobs supported, and loan amount ranges.
For all loans below $150,000, SBA is releasing all of the above information except for actual amounts (ranges are provided).

COVID-19 datasets

Roper Center Public Opinion Data related to COVID-19 plus some additional links to other public opinion sources. One needs to authenticate via CAS to Roper and then use their registered username/password.

SimplyAnalytics is now offering COVID-19 data at the national, state, and county levels, updated daily. The data is sourced from USAFacts.org.

Reports up-to-date and historical gender/sex-disaggregated data on COVID-19 cases and fatalities for 50 US States and 2 US Territories. Reports weekly and cumulative US state-level gender/sex-disaggregated COVID-19 cases and fatality data from mid-April to the present, manually extracted each week from publicly-available state public health departments. Provides disaggregated by sex: cases and deaths; case and mortality rates; age-adjusted mortality rates; time series of age-adjusted rate; ratio of mortality.