GOV/PBH 373: COVID Policy: Assessing Impacts

U. S. Government and Medical Websites

Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The official government website from the White House, the CDC, and FEMA
Government Response to Coronavirus, COVID-19
Provides consumer-related links and quick facts
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This link takes you to the CDC's page on COVID-19
National Institutes of Health
The NIH page on COVID-19
National Library of Medicine
Contains update information and resources on COVID-19
COVID-19 Resources from the Congressional Research Service (CRS)
An extensive list of government information links dealing with all aspects of COVID-19: global issues; public health, the economic impact on individuals, impacts on business and the US economy, the executive branch response, congressional response and legislation, and legal analyses

GovInfo This link opens in a new window
GPO's GovInfo provides free public access to Government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies and preserved as technology changes. (replaced FDsys in December 2018)

LibGuides from the Federal Depository Library Program
This site contains a more extensive list of web sites from the government's health agencies.
COVID-19 Toolkit
Provides links to many government web sites and other resources for depository libraries.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
The page on COVID-19 provides the latest information for Pennsylvania residents.
Lancaster County COVID-19 Site
This page includes the Interactive COVID-19 Dashboard for Lancaster County and information from county health providers.
City of Lancaster COVID-19 Resources
Includes the Mayor's daily briefings.
Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center
Contains data, reports, and webcasts.
COVID-19 Resource Center
From the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
COVID-19 Resources
From the American Society of Hematology.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Policy and Practice Updates
From the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
COVID-19: Policies to Protect People and Communities
From the Urban Institute.

Ebooks and Reports

Poverty and the impact of COVID-19 : the blue-marble health approach
by Peter J. Hotez
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2020
Infection control deficiencies were widespread and persistent in nursing homes prior to COVID-19 pandemic.
From the U. S. Government Accountability Office, May 2020
Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response : Ethics and Governance Guidance
by Jeffrey P. Kahn
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2020
CARES Act : initial areas of concern regarding implementation of unemployment insurance provisions
from the U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, April 2020

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Online Databases for Current News and Background Information

CDC Library COVID-19 Research Articles Downloadable Database
Provides free access to many current research articles.
CORD-19 COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
CORD-19 is a free resource of more than 57,000 scholarly articles about the novel coronavirus for use by the global research community.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to major U.S. and international newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Chicago Sun-Times, and local Lancaster newspapers. Also includes newswires, transcripts, and U.S. small town newspapers. Coverage varies per title, with some dating back 50 years.
Medline (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Provides access to over 12 million citations back to 1950 in biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Clarivate Analytics' premier citation databases in the sciences (physical, life and social) and arts & humanities. Search for articles that cite a known author or work or by standard search queries. Covers 1864 to the present.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Indexes over 300 English-language periodicals covering anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and related fields. Covers 1983 to the present.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Learn how to connect Google Scholar to the F&M Library here.