LibGuides: Project-Based Learning: COVID19 (PBL)

Patterns and Directions for Making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Wear a Mask to Protect Yourself and Others
Information about face masks 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 the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
COVID-19 information and resources from King County WA
"COVID-19 is not going away, so it’s important not to let our guard down." 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. Last updated November 10, 2021.
PubMed Articles on the Coronavirus
This link will take you to a list of the latest Coronavirus research available in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Database.
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.
Use and Care of Masks
The Center for Disease Control's updated recommendation on taking care of your mask.

Free Online News Sources

Many major news outlets were 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. (Some of these news outlets have not recently updated their collection of Coronavirus coverage.)

The New York Times
Recently updated as of November 22, 2022.
The Los Angeles Times Coronavirus blog
The Wall Street Journal
The Atlantic
Recently updated as of November 22, 2022.

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. 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: transcultural communication about SARS by Huiling Ding
Call Number: eBook.

ISBN: 9780809333202

Publication Date: 2014-04-01

From the publisher: "Huiling Ding uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it [and] the way knowledge production and legitimation operate in global epidemics..."
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.

Videos on Making Face Masks and Shields

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

CDC Alerts Doctors On Mystery Child Inflammatory Illness Symptoms
Information about an inflammatory illness in children that may be linked to COVID-19
Doctor Explains COVID-19
A short video - 4.5 minutes - explaining COVID-19.
How COVID-19 Can Spread in a Community
This animation summarizes findings from an article published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on April 8, 2020. This graphic, is based on a recent investigation documenting an example of ‘community spread’ of COVID-19. The report revealed important new information about how COVID 19 can spread in a community large family gatherings can be a way to spread COVID 19 in communities as illustrated in the cluster of cases detailed in this report.