U. of Wash. issues a literature situation report 5

U. of Wash. issues a literature situation report 5 days/week

I saw an article today about a "COVID-19 Literature Situation Report" that a small team of faculty and students at U. of Washington puts out 5 days/week (M-F). You can see this article at the following link:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/hea...t-have-to/

Here are some excerpts to give a brief outline of what they do.

A typical report includes a list of key takeaways and summaries of a dozen or so studies, sorted into categories like “testing and treatment,” “transmission” and “public health policy.” There’s also a shortlist of other interesting research, along with links for those who want to delve more deeply.

The students gather the raw materials, using standard search terms to pull all the new studies posted on PubMed, a free government search engine, and medRxiv and bioRxiv, which posts preprints before peer review. They also manually check several high-profile journals, including the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.

The average haul is about 400 papers a day but can range between 200 and 1,000. What the team is looking for are well-designed and executed studies with public health significance. Vaccine updates, analyses of school openings, modeling projections and reports about the impact of masks or social distancing get high priority.

I thought some of our posters who are keeping up with recent developments might be interested in receiving this report. The link below will take you to their website where you can see recent reports as well as subscribe to receive their daily email reports.

https://depts.washington.edu/pandemicalliance...on-report/