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Creighton Coronavirus Dashboard
Keeping the Creighton University community appropriately informed about currently reported COVID-19 cases among students, faculty, and staff at our Omaha campus. Updated every Monday.
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
Includes an information hotline and case numbers in Nebraska
UNMC/Nebraska Medicine Coronavirus Update
Douglas Co. Health Department
COVID-19 and contact information.
United Way of the Midlands
Omaha metro area information and social services directory
Douglas County GIS dashboard
Mapping of confirmed exposures in Douglas County

CDC (Center for Disease Control) homepage for COVID-19 information
Portal to COVID-19. Information on symptoms. what to look out for, what to do if you think you are sick, who is at risk, and how to protect yourself at work and home.
Clean and Disinfect: Recommendations for US Households
Includes common household cleaning agents and instructions for use from the CDC.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus has extensive information from the NIH and other sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
Clinical Trials (ClinicalTrials.gov)
A registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry
Trial information from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, China, India, Korea, Cuba, Germany, Iran, Japan, Pan African, Sri Lanka, and The Netherlands
COVID-19 Global Cases (John Hopkins University live map)
Confirmed and recovered cases by country. Works best in desktop.
Postman COVID-19 API Resource Center
API Collections for COVID-19
Global Economic Effects of COVID-19: In Brief
Congressional Research Service Report at Homeland Security's Digital Library - published 3/25/2020.

MEDLINE Complete
An authoritative index of biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development. It also provides the full text of over 2,500 of the journals in the database.
PubMed.gov
Indexes biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. From off campus, enter PubMed via the library website for Creighton linkouts.

Coronavirus Research Database
A database that curates open-access content related to coronaviruses, including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
The Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to prepare and distribute the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a free resource of over 29,000 scholarly articles, including over 13,000 with full text, about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses for use by the global research community.
Disaster Lit
A National Library of Medicine (NLM) database of links to open-access disaster medicine and public health documents.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Open-access journal from the CDC.
Europe PubMed Central
Europe PMC is an open science platform that enables access to a worldwide collection of life science publications and preprints from trusted sources around the globe.
LitCOVID
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus, curated from PubMed.
Research Journals
A further list of journals that have made materials open-access on COVID-19 during the outbreak. Keep in mind Creighton Libraries will often have full-text access to these as well through the Medline and PubMed links.
WHO COVID-19 Database
WHO's Global Research on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Disease - updated daily M-F.

Direct access to point of care content for clinicians: https://www.dynamed.com/condition/covid-19-novel-coronavirus
Direct links to free journal articles from major publishers: https://covid-19.ebscomedical.com/trusted-open-access-resources
Direct links to International, federal, and state agencies’ sites: https://covid-19.ebscomedical.com/direct-links-official-information
Disease Prevention Skills for Nursing and Allied Health from Dynamic Health
- Click the web page and scroll to the bottom of the page for access to:
  - Standard Precautions
  - Implementation of Isolation Droplet Precautions
  - Implementation of Isolation of Airborne Precautions
  - Utilization of Mask, Goggle and Face Shields
  - Visitors to Patients in Isolation