LibGuides: Project-Based Learning: COVID19 (PBL)

Patterns and Directions for Making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19
Do-it-Yourself face mask patterns from the Centers for Disease Control.
Answers to Your DIY Face Mask Questions, Including What Material You Should Use.
From the Washington Post.
How to Make Alternative Face Masks and Shields When Other Personal Protective Equipment is Unavailable
Patterns for masks and shields, by the City of Philadelphia.

COVID19 Web Resources

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases
Shows confirmed cases by country and region, graphs of confirmed cases, deaths, and other information. By John Hopkins CSSE.
What to do if you have confirmed or suspected COVID-19 or are worried that you may have COVID-19
From King County Health.
Center for Disease Control Coronavirus
A summary of the current situation, and links to information for health care professionals, laboratories, and travelers, and more.
Novel Coronavirus Information Center
What we know about Coronaviruses from Elsevier.
PubMed Articles on the Coronavirus
This link will take you to a list of the latest Coronavirus research published in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Database.
Seattle Times on the Coronavirus
For local coverage, this link goes to a list of articles published in the Seattle Times on the Coronavirus. (For full text, please contact the library.)
What Kids Want to Know About Coronavirus (NPR)
A comic to teach kids about Coronavirus.
Face masks for COVID-19: A deep dive into the data
Review of the data of the effectiveness of masks against COVID-19.
Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings, Especially in Areas of Significant Community-Based Transmission
The Center for Disease Control's updated recommendation on wearing masks.

Free Online News Sources

Many major news outlets are making their Coronavirus coverage available free, even if their content is usually restricted by a pay wall. These are reliable sources who currently offer free virus coverage.

Library Resources

SARS from East to West by Olssan, Eva-Karin.
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780739170366
Publication Date: 2012
From the publisher: "(An) international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed..."
Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic by Huiling Ding
Call Number: eBook.
ISBN: 9780809333202
Publication Date: 2014-04-01
From the publisher: "(The author) uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it."
DVD - Viral outbreak: The science of emerging disease by DeRisi, Joseph L. et.al.
Call Number: MEDIA 616.9 VIRAL 2011o
Publication Date: 2011
Lectures on epidemiology and the science we use to understand and fight disease.

Outbreak! Contagion! The Next Pandemic!
(Kanopy Streaming Video) One of a 24-part series on infectious diseases, this asks the viewer to visualize the next pandemic.

Care Plans and Isolation Checklists

Care Plan - Adult Fever
Care plans for adults with fever.
Care Plan - Adult Pneumonia
Care plans for adults with pneumonia.
Care Plan - Child Fever
Care plans for children with fever.
Care Plan - Child Pneumonia
Care plan for children with pneumonia.
Isolation Precautions - Personal Protective Equipment
Steps for deciding if isolation was necessary, and steps for using PPE.

Videos on Making Face Masks and Shields

How to Make Your Own Face Covering (Video)
Features Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams from the Centers for Disease Control. No sewing required. (45 seconds.)
How to Sew a Reusable Face Mask with Filter Pocket (Video)
Sew an easy mask with a filter pocket. (15 minutes.)
A Doctor Explains How to Make the Safest Face Mask (Video)
Emergency Room physician demonstrates how to make the best professional-grade face mask. (15 minutes.)
DIY Transparent Face Shield Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Coronavirus (Video)
Making a face shield mask. (4.5 minutes.)
How To Make Your Own Face Shield: DIY in 5 Simple Steps (Video)
Very quick face shield, with binder covers. (3 minutes.)
Homemade (Coronavirus) Face Shield Made from a Soda Bottle
With subtitles in Spanish. (6 minutes.)

Videos on COVID10

10 Things You Can Do to Manage COVID-19 at Home (Video)
Centers for Disease Control on how to manage if someone in your household contracts COVID-19
6 Steps to Prevent COVID-19
A short video on how to prevent COVID-19.
Doctor Explains COVID-19
A short video - 4.5 minutes - explaining COVID-19.
How Covid-19 Can Spread in a Community
CDC Alerts Doctors On Mystery Child Inflammatory Illness Symptoms
Information about an inflammatory illness in children that may be linked to COVID-19