The COVID 19 Project tests the hypotheses that citizens, provided with information and tools can be trusted to address the complex problems in their community and nationally.
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Citizens and civil society organizations interested in supporting and joining the COVID 19 Project are welcome.
Join us for our online event at the occasion of the beginning of the Citizen Commission (Details to come)
The Experts
Public Health Officials, nationally and globally
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) February 28, 2020
Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold January 23, 2020. Catharine I. Paules, MD1; Hilary D. Marston, MD, MPH2; Anthony S. Fauci, MD2
Article in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association 323(8) · January 2020 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.0757
February 28, 2020 News Release: COVID-19 a Reminder of the Challenge of Emerging Infectious Diseases NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci is available for comment.
COVID-19: Navigating the uncharted. Editorial The New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2002387 (2020).Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., H. Clifford Lane, M.D
CDC Experts
For scientific affirmation, they turned to Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the sole public health professional in the Meadows group. A highly regarded infectious diseases expert, she was a constant source of upbeat news for the president and his aides, walking the halls with charts emphasizing that outbreaks were gradually easing., and Robert R. Redfield, M.D.
Robert R. Redfield, M.D the director of the (CDC) Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC’s Division of Global Migration
and Quarantine.
Medical and Researchers
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (Hoover) Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis
Dr. John Ioannidis Interviewed by Vinay Prasad MD MPH
Scott Gottlieb, MD @ScottGottliebMD
Daniel Lucey, M.D. MPH, FIDSA, FACP, is an infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center, a senior scholar at the Georgetown University O’Neil Institute, Anthropology Research Associate, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Global Health Committee.He has served as a volunteer medical responder to outbreaks that included the West Africa Ebola crisis. He has collected information on outbreaks starting in 2001 with cases of anthrax in 2001, and including smallpox vaccination 2002, SARS 2003, H5N1 Flu 2004, MERS in 2013, and Ebola in April, 2014, He has gathered, and updated information on the spread of the coronavirus here since Jan. 6.
COVID Twitter list of 500 epidemiologists, virologists, physicians, researchers, NGOs, and selected specialist journalists.
A COVID Twitter list of more than 200 experts: doctors, epidemiologists, academics, policymakers, and journalists.
Jeff Jarvis In this crisis, God bless the net March 13, 2020 coronavirus, dystopia, epidemic, Internet, pandemic
Time for Experts March 24, 2020 by Jeff Jarvis covid, expertise, journalism
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), which publishes CIDRAP News
Ali Khan, MD is now the dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha. in 2014, leaving the directorship of the C.D.C.’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, which included overseeing the Strategic National Stockpile of emergency medical supplies, supervising eight hundred employees, helping assemble a national biodefense strategy against pandemic threats, and much else
Bill Gates
The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola April 9, 2015 N Engl J Med 2015; 372:1381-1384 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1502918
Innovation for Pandemics May 31, 2018
Responding to COVID-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? Bill Gates April 30, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 382:1677-1679
Peter Daszak, is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit scientific group, based in New York, devoted to biological conservation and pandemic prevention.
Dennis Carroll, a former research virologist, led a pandemic-threats unit at the U.S. Agency for International Development for almost fifteen years. In 2009, he created a large program called predict, dispersing about two hundred million dollars in grants to support discovery of potentially dangerous new viruses before they spill over into humans. That program is ending, due to “the ascension of risk averse bureaucrats,” he told the Times, last October.
Public Health Epidemiologists
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
With COVID-19 now spreading via community transmission in the U.S. and the World Health Organization raising its risk assessment to “very high,” the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health presents a 30-minute webcast featuring some of the best minds addressing this global health concern.
Center for Health Security at John Hopkins
Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health
BROWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Schools and the Path to Zero
Strategies for Pandemic Resilience in the Face of High Community Spread
Schools and the Path to Zero
Strategies for Pandemic Resilience in the Face of High Community Spread
April 20, 2020: COVID-19 Response: Pandemic Resilience Roadmap
The Edmond J. Safra Center at Harvard University COVID-19 Response Initiative, a bipartisan group of experts in economics, public health, technology and ethics from across the country, has released the nation’s first comprehensive operational roadmap for mobilizing and reopening the U.S. economy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
Securing Justice, Health, and Democracy against the COVID-19 Threat Originally Posted March 20, 2020 Corrected March 24, 2020
John M. Barry is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
Recommend Steps to Safeguard Health, Civil and Human Rights
Featuring 50 national experts on 35 topics, analyzing US policy responses to #COVID19 & making recommendations to government leaders on everything from health care to elections. http://COVID19PolicyPlaybook.org
“The Lancet COVID-19 Commission has been created to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.”
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Chair of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission, in a commentary in The Lancet
The politicians
Donald Trump , The President of The United States
Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci present the data that led to President Trump extending the coronavirus social distancing guidelines to April 30th.
Andrew Cuomo , NY Gov. Holds Coronavirus Briefing Streamed live on Apr 1, 2020 @NYGovCuomo
The Modelers (Link to COVID-19 models)
Niall Ferguson: COVID-19 in the Light of History and Network Science