This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post.
Usually you need an expensive subscription to access research publications, but major medical publishers like Elsevier are not only making such research free, but have created a website to help people find the research they need. It contains sections for clinicians and the public and also pre-prints which contain very timely information for policy makers.
Novel Coronavirus Information Center
“Elsevier’s free health and medical research on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19“
A wonderful gesture.
Update 14 April 2020
COVID-19 new publications from the US National Academies Press (free PDF download) – includes one on face masks
https://www.nap.edu/search/?term=covid-19&x=0&y=0
The publications tend to be short but summarise the state of knowledge and give links to the published research, often in journals that I do not normally read.
Update 15 Apr 2020
ScienceDirect, the massive journal aggregator has made 21,484 articles relating to COVID-19 available for free. This link searches for “COVID-19” OR Coronavirus OR “Corona virus” OR “201
