Please find below links to some resources that both volunteers from the Australian medical community and colleagues requesting support from various countries may find useful.

Virus information 

• Overview of Covid-19 (From the CDC)
• A short video from the WHO on Sars-Cov-2 and Covid-19 
• COVID-19 information and FAQs in various Indian languages (from brief19.com)
• ANU Webinar: “Diagnosis and Characterisation of SARS, Covid-19 and variants of concern”
• ViralZone: Beta coronaviruses (a scientific resource covering betacoronavirus genome structure and links to other scientific databases) 

Vaccine information 

• A short video from the WHO on how vaccines work
• A short video from the WHO on fair distribution of vaccines and COVAX
• Covid-19 vaccination information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from the Australian Government (Australian Government website)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook (in multiple languages) - a practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation (from Scibeh.org - tools for crisis knowledge management)
• COVISHIELD (AZD1222) Vaccine effectiveness among healthcare and frontline Workers of Indian Armed Forces: Interim results of VIN-WIN cohort study(Subhadeep Ghosh et.al., Medical Journal Armed Forces India, Volume 77, Supplement 2, 2021, Pages S264-S270, ISSN 0377-1237)
• COVID-19 vaccination FAQ in short, easy to understand video bytes from Dr Sumana Gopinath   https://vimeo.com/584677487
• Posters (in English and Hindi) on health advice, including on COVID-19 vaccination, from TATA Trusts
• COVID-19 Vaccine Discussions Webinar Series recording (facilitated by ANZGITA and ANU; coordinated by Dr Meru Sheel, Prof Adam Jenney and Dr Chris Hair) 
  • "General overview of COVID-19 vaccines, COVAX" by Dr Meru Sheel - April 20, 2021
  • "Clinical considerations and contraindications, special groups for vaccination.", Dr Christopher Blyth - April 29, 2021
  • "Management of Hospital COVID-19 Outbreak affecting patients & healthcare workers", Prof Adam Jenney, Prof Allen Cheng, Associate Professor Steve McGloughlin, Associate Professor James McMahon - May 12, 2021
  • "Communicating about vaccines" , Dr Meru Sheel, Professor Julie Leask - May 13, 2021
  • "COVID-19 vaccine safety" , Dr Meru Sheel, Professor Adam Jenney, Professor Michael Gold, Professor Huyen Tran - May 28, 2021

Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 

• A diagram illustrating viral load, antibody response and duration of symptoms (courtesy of doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3862 )
• Review of Adaptive Immune response to SARS-COV-2 (Journal Article: A detailed review of innate, T and B-cell response) doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.007

Testing and diagnosis 

• A short video from WHO detailing types of Covid-19 diagnostic tests
• Different types of diagnostic tests for covid-19
• Antigenic tests   
  • What are antigenic tests
  • TGA guidance (Australian guidance on regulation of therapeutic goods)
  • A table comparing antigenic tests to nucleic acid amplification tests (American CDC resource)

Covid-19 clinical management 

• Guidance for managing COVID-19 at home (from Indiacovidsos.org)
• Guidelines to support clinicians managing patients with COVID-19 in secondary and tertiary care settings in India (from indiacovidguidelines.org)
• Infographic on oxygen use for COVID-19 management (from Indiacovidsos.org)
• Information to guide management of COVID patients, incorporating recommendations from WHO, ISDA and ICMR adapted by authors at covidindiatreatment.com (from Covidindiatreatment.com) 
• Internet Book of Critical Care – Treatment of Covid-19
• Monoclonal antibodies and antivirals being reviewed by the TGA for treatment of Covid-19
• ANU Webinar: “Physical Activity in Recovery from Covid-19"
• ANU Webinar: “Neonatal Covid-19 and MIS-C in the Newborn"
• ANU Webinar: “Covid-19: lessons learnt in the ICU"
• ANU Webinar: “Covid-19 and kidney disease"
• ANU Webinar: “COVID-19 home-based care & monitoring"

Preventing transmission 

• A short video from WHO on Sars-cov-2 transmission
• CDC page on Sars-Cov-2 transmission
• Covid-19 advice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and remote communities (Australian Government website)
• A comprehensive repository of Risk Communication & Community Engagement (RCCE) materials (from learning4impact.org)
• Transmission of Sars-Cov-2: implications for infection prevention precautions (Journal article published July 2020)

Healthcare practitioner support 

• ANU Webinar: ““Should I or shouldn’t I” - Challenges of health professionals accessing help for themselve;
• ANU Webinar: “Partnering with service users in the COVID response
• ANU Webinar: “Challenges in delivering healthcare during the Covid pandemic - the Apollo Experience
• ANU Webinar: “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and COVID-19: A tale of two strains
• ANU Webinar: “Navigating through pandemonium: Reflections on the Indian response to the pandemic

Useful terminology 

• “Variants of concern”
• “Genomic surveillance”