Coronavirus comics from University of Nebraska: meet Graffiti Mouse, Cat, and Professor Gray

Recently I ran across a post from McGoogan Health Science Library on a Coronavirus comics exhibit at their library. Happily I discovered access to these comics isn't limited as all are online, including a comic on C'rona from an indigenous perspective. 

More on the online exhibit from the McGoogan News blog... 

"In collaboration with virologists and artists, three comic stories about COVID-19 were developed during the pandemic and posted online during the last half of 2020. The fictional narratives address fundamental issues in biology, virology and network science in order to help readers understand the complexities of living through a viral pandemic.

The stories focus on three themes: the biology and social context of the COVID-19 virus; the relationship of wild animals, particularly bats, to the pandemic; and the impact of the pandemic on Tribal communities. The stories are posted online and are published by the University of Nebraska Press as the book “C’RONA Pandemic Comics,” which includes essays for youth about the virus and the pandemic.

• C’rona Comix, by Bob Hall, Judy Diamond and Liz VanWormer (meet Graffiti Mouse, Cat, and Professor Gray)
• Tribal C’rona Comix,  by Henry Payer, Hall, Judi gaiashkibos and Diamond 
• C’rona Comix II, by Hall, Bob Camp, VanWormer and Diamond

“Tribal” features the story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte, MD, who also is featured in an exhibit in the Wigton Heritage Center."

https://worldofviruses.unl.edu/covid-19/?comix_1=true

 

Inside the Coronavirus - Scientific American

Inside the Coronavirus Mark Fischetti,Veronica Falconieri Hays,Britt Glaunsinger What scientists know about the inner workings of the pathogen that has infected the world

Inside the Coronavirus: What Scientists Know about the Inner Workings of the Virus that has infected the world.

This is an excellent visual and animated display of how coronavirus works, 

and the approaches for a treatment.  Something for the rest of us ...

COVID-19 article retractions

Article retractions are not unheard of in medical literature. However, the speed at which COVID-19 research has been published in the last few months has caused some concern about recent, high-profile retractions in NEJM and The Lancet, related to coronavirus.

Read more:

• High-profile coronavirus retractions raise concerns about data oversight (June 5, 2020)
• Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) papers (no date)
• After retractions of two Covid-19 papers, scientists ask what went wrong (June 8, 2020)

https://www.cdc.gov/media/subtopic/images.htm

Contact Tracing is the Key to Reopening America - But how does it actually work?

Contact tracing is key to reopening America. But how does it actually work? (Wednesday, April 29)
States across the country are laying the groundwork to launch massive contact tracing efforts to identify people who may have contracted the new coronavirus. Some public health experts say the efforts are crucial to relaxing social distancing measures intended to curb America's Covid-19 epidemic. But how does it work?

The coronavirus wreaked extensive damage (yellow) on the lungs of a 59-year-old man 

who died at George Washington University Hospital, as seen in a 3D model based 

on computerized tomography scans.

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL AND SURGICAL THEATER

How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

By Meredith Wadman, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Jocelyn Kaiser, Catherine MatacicApr. 17, 2020 , 6:45 PM

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.

This article does a nice job of pulling together the disparate pieces of the Coronavirus/Covid-19 puzzle--of what we know so far.  And it's just the beginning ... 

Multiple medical specialists are seeing different manifestations throughout the body, 

in multiple body systems--not just the lungs, but GI, kidney, brain ...

One thing is clear: This is not the average flu, and it's not the average common cold.  

We are only beginning to understand the lengths and depths of it's power 

to wreak havoc with the human body.  

Matthew McConaughey Teaches Us How to Make a Face Mask

For those of us who don't sew ...

LitCovid: Keep Up with the latest Coronavirus Research

LitCovid  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

An open-resource literature hub known as LitCovid curates the most comprehensive collection of international research papers so far on the new coronavirus disease COVID-19 (see go.nature.com/3almd5p). Developed with the support of the US National Institutes of Health’s intramural research programme, LitCovid is updated daily with newly published articles. The aim is to provide timely insight from the scientific literature into the biology of the virus and the diagnosis and management of those who have been infected.

LitCovid has a more sophisticated search function than existing resources. It identifies roughly 35% more relevant articles than do conventional keyword-based searches for entries such as ‘COVID-19’ or ‘nCOV’. Furthermore, the articles are categorized by topic — overview, disease mechanism, transmission dynamics, treatment, case report and epidemic forecasting — as well as by geographic location for visualization on a world map.

Nature 579, 193 (2020)

doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00694-1