Here is a guide to the most popular sources of COVID literature from our members.
The quickest easiest update for those of working 60 hours plus on COVID are:
Dr John Campbell’s Youtube channel, to catch up in the car, on a ride or run. If you are on an exercise bike you can check out the sometimes hand annotated graphs. He does a daily update on scientific literature and government statistics, it’s mostly on the money, and has a good focus on epi, transmission dynamics, vaccine effectiveness and variants of concern.
US CDC COVID-19 Weekly Science Updates Try this if you want just one weekly summary of the most relevant disease control papers. A team of about 20 epidemiologists search, prioritise and summarise the most relevant disease control papers on a weekly basis.
On Twitter: try @AdamJKucharski @mlipsitch @ScottGottliebMD, @bencowling @neil_ferguson @trvrb
Meta.org A platform developed by the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Uses AI and a range of metrics to identify the most important papers for user supplied search terms. It seems to choose well. It monitors the popularity of published articles to rank them against your reaiding using machine learning to analyse your interaction with the paper discovery process to personalise future recommendations.
Reddit: r/COVID19 A COVID subreddit for scientists. See the papers other scientists think are important. The comments and debates on the articles are very enlightening.
Promed picks up breaking news in infectious diseases, has COVID-19 updates.