Many furry friends have enjoyed having their humans at home during the pandemic. Dogs may also be lending a paw to help detect COVID-19. Nature reports on a November 2020 online meeting of the International K9 Team to share preliminary research on dogs' ability to accurately sniff out COVID-19 infections in humans. The article reviews a few promising studies on the subject, identifies research...

Many of our resources this year focused on various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a diverse field of lesson plans, online exhibits, and boredom busters, the COVID-19 Health Literacy Project left a lasting impression. The project disseminates evidence-based and equitable COVID-19 healthcare information in a variety of languages. Filling a critical need for multilingual health literacy...

Finding credible, up-to-date, practical information about the COVID-19 pandemic can be an overwhelming and time-consuming task for people who just want answers to questions such as: Do I need a vaccine booster shot? Is it safe to swim in a public pool? When should I wear a mask, according to the latest guidelines? The all-woman interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians behind Dear...

Contact tracing has been an important piece of the pandemic response. This data visualization breaks the process down for readers, weighing app-based contact tracing's benefits and potential drawbacks, while also emphasizing key considerations (most notably, privacy protection). Thomas Haas and Fidel Thomet, both based in Berlin, made their data visualization project accessible in both English and...

Created by Samantha Holmes, a graduate student completing a degree in public history at Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario), Sounds of COVID poses the question, "What can we learn from the soundscape of a pandemic?" Visitors can listen to Sounds of COVID at the link above,on the website or on Soundcloud. There are about 70 tracks. Most were collected by Holmes, though some come from other...

The microCOVID Project aims to "quantitatively estimate the COVID risk to you of your ordinary daily activities," such as going to work or the grocery store, attending an indoor or outdoor gathering, eating in a restaurant, or riding a plane. For a given scenario, the calculator asks for information such as geographic location, distance between people, amount of talking, vaccination status, use...