LibGuides: United States Government Information by Subject: COVID-19 Research

Terminology

According to the Situation Summary at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (viewed March 15, 2020):

The virus has been named "SARS-CoV-2" and the disease it causes has been named "coronavirus disease 2019'" (abbreviated "'COVID-19").

According to Frequently Asked Questions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (viewed March 15, 2020):

Formerly, this disease was referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV”.

Databases from the National Library of Medicine

LitCovid
Curated literature hub of research literature (subset of PubMed)
Disaster Lit
Disaster medicine and public health resources, including guidelines, reports, proceedings, training, fact sheets, etc., for a professional audience
Medline
Citations for scholarly journal articles (subset of PubMed)
PubMed
Citations for biomedical journal articles, books, book chapters, and reports
PubMed Central
Open access repository

The links above lead to specific search results in each database using varying terminology for the virus. Performing additional searches may be useful.

ClinicalTrials.gov
Corona virus clinical trials

U.S. Government Websites

Other official websites

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratory

Projects using government data

Other Academic Guides

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Information for the public

MedlinePlus, from the National Library of Medicine, offers health information for the public. Currently, a search in MedlinePlus on COVID-19 redirects to the CDC website.