An overview of the Covid-19 pandemic
(Web pages that provided an overview early in the pandemic)
SCMP: How the pandemic began in Wuhan, China (updated daily)
- A Chinese news source explains how the pandemic began in Wuhan, China.
John Hopkins: What Is Coronavirus?
Our World in Data (updated daily)
Wikipedia: Coronavirus disease 2019 (English)
- There are very many scientists, doctors and other experts who know English and who will certainly want to make sure that there is no scientific misinformation here about Covid-19.
Visualizers
See how Covid-19 deaths have increased compared to some other causes of death
(visualizer at public.flourish.studio moved or removed)
Visual Capitalist: Visual explainers on healthcare
Past news stories providing an overview
Scientific American: Inside the Coronavirus (July 2020 Edition)
WebMD: Coronavirus: What We Know Now (June 8, 2020)
Medical News Today: Coronavirus cause: Origin and how it spreads (May 19, 2020)
National Geographic: What is the coronavirus? (May 15, 2020)
Timeline: How The Coronavirus Spread In The United States (April 6, 2020)
Vox: Coronavirus is not the flu. It’s worse. (April 1, 2020)
- The following is a video explaining several reasons for why Covid-19 is not the flu. In fact, it is quite dangerous in many ways:
COVID-19 Infographics from MedScape.com (March 31, 2020)
(now requires a password, which wasn’t required in March 2020)
Nucleus Medical Media: COVID-19 Animation: What Happens If You Get Coronavirus?
(March 28, 2020)
National Geographic: Coronavirus 101: What you need to know (March 27, 2020)
Kurzgesagt – in a nutshell: The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
(March 19, 2020)
- An excellent video that explains the Covid-19 pandemic in some detail.
- Note that scientists are not certain about how many Covid-19 patients have the immune system directly attacked in the very way that is explained in this video. It seems to happen in the most serious cases.
Time: Understanding the Coronavirus Pandemic, in 5 Charts (March 18, 2020)
WHO: Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (January 31, 2020)
- This is a video from the WHO on how to protect yourself and others against Covid-19.
- NOTE: On February 11, 2020 the WHO changed the name of the virus to Covid-19. (The viral particle that causes the disease is now called SARS-CoV-2.)
NPR: Coronavirus 101: What We Do — And Don’t — Know About The Outbreak Of COVID-19
(January 24, 2020)
Forbes: Everything You Need To Know About The Current Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak
(January 23, 2020)