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Coronavirus COVID-19: .

Want to be sure your base of knowledge is reliable?

Start by looking at this regularly updated Disinformation Watch from the BBC. It is designed as a quick stop to help you sort fact from fiction, and rumor from intentional misinformation.

About this New Coronavirus

From NPR: Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus

What You Need to Know

Connecticut Specific COVID-19 Information
From the Connecticut State Department of Health
Q & A on Coronaviruses (COVID-19)
From the World Health Organization

FAQs

Up-to-Date Reports

Coronavirus Maps and Charts
A visual guide to the outbreak from the BBC.
The Covid Tracking Project
Collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
Global Cases of COVID-19
Gathered by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering
World Health Organization Situation Reports
Daily updates from around the world with maps.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of Suzanne Levasseur of Mount Wachusett Community College in compiling the resources for this guide.

She wholeheartedly recommends her favorite podcast, This Week in Virology, as the inspiration for this guide.