COVID-19: Brief Research & Annotated Bibliography

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COVID-19: Brief Research & Annotated Bibliography
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COVID-19: Brief Research & Annotated Bibliography
COVID-19: Annotated Bibliography
Advice for everyone: Coronavirus (COVID-19). (2020, April 6). National Health Services. /conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
This entry offers basic advice on COVID-19 for prevention, protection and support purposes. The emphasis is laid most on limited movement and contact to help contain COVID-19.
Coronavirus public information campaign launched across the UK. (2020, February 3). GOV.UK. /government/news/coronavirus-public-information-campaign-launched-across-the-uk
This entry is a news piece by UK Government announcing a nationwide public information campaign to help contain COVID-19 and inform general public across all available media on different protection and prevention measures.
Coronavirus. (2020, April 6). WorldOMeter. /coronavirus/
This entry offer an updated, daily counter of COVID-19 recovery, death and infection cases worldwide. Timelines, comparisons and measurement indicators are also offered across countries.
Duncan, D., & Lyall, G. (2020). Understanding the coronavirus. British Journal of Midwifery, 28(3). https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2020.28.3.146
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This entry offers precautionary, protective and prevention measures for midwives in order to avoid COVID-19 contraction when in contact with patients. The main emphasis is laid on case management and prevention measures since no vaccine has been developed so far for COVID-19.
Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (2020, February 27). WHO. /publications-detail/global-surveillance-for-human-infection-with-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)
This entry is a World Heath Organization (WHO) global surveillance guidance for COVID-19 on monitoring, detection, risk assessment and response measures. The guidance is provided in four languages: English, Chinese, Portuguese and Arabic.
Reynolds, M., & Weiss, S. (2020, April 6). What is coronavirus and what happens now it is a pandemic? Wired. /article/china-coronavirus
This entry offers a broad news account about COVID-19 origins, spread rate, containment measures and future prospects for vaccine development.
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COVID-19: Brief Research
Globally, new Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has become a watchword for panic. Given no vaccines are in place, so far, for COVID-19, health organizations and care providers have case management and prevention measures as one possible option. The accelerating pace by which Covid-19 is spreading, now monitored closely by numerous monitoring and measurement agencies (Coronavirus, 2020), coupled by constantly changing guidance from WHO on surveillance measures (“Global Surveillance for human infection,” 2020), makes COVID-19 o...