Authoritative Sites

Here are links directly to the Covid-19 pages of organizations with expert information. Links verified as working as of February 7, 2021.

Authoritative resources

The World Health Organization (WHO)

The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC (U. S. Government)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

World Economic Forum

Journal of the American Medical Association

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Harvard Medical School

Johns Hopkins

The Mayo Clinic

MedilinePlus

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center (CIDRAP) (University of Minnesota)

USA: FEMA Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response

Europe: The common EU response to COVID-19

American Lung Association

Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats

European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
(COVID-19 page missing?)

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Max Planx Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

Massachusetts General Hospital

VCU Health System
(COVID-19 page moved or removed)

More resources

Elsevier

MedScape.com

The Lancet

Meta
(previously on Facebook.com)


Vaccines

NYC.gov: COVID-19: Vaccine Facts

Multilingual resources

COVID-19 Health Literacy Project

Courses

WHO online courses

Future Learn

Coursera

Take a free course on contact tracing offered by Johns Hopkins on Coursera.
(Still being offered as of February 7, 2025)

OpenWHO.org

edX

Scientific educational sites

Scitable (by nature Education)
(about biology in general, e.g.: Translation: DNA to mRNA to Protein)

Forums

Reddit


Downloads

WHO: (COVID-19) situation report – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
(moved or removed)

UN: GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN COVID-19