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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Home

Article links and resources about the 2020 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

About This Guide

Barstow Community College Library has created an information guide with trustworthy sources of information regarding COVID-19. We will continue to monitor information sources for this virus and update the information guide as appropriate.

Tracking the virus

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Chronicle of Higher Education materials

Spanish Flu 1918

What can we learn from the 1918 Spanish Flu?


A picture of a family in Oakland, California, 104 years ago during the 1918 pandemic.

 

Local Information

Academic Article Databases

Federal Administrative Agencies

Total confirmed COVID-19 deaths

What is Contact Tracing?

What is contact tracing for COVID-19? (GOOGLE ANSWERS)
In general, contact tracing involves identifying people who have an infectious disease (cases) and people who they came in contact with (contacts) and working with them to interrupt disease spread. This includes asking people with COVID-19 to isolate and their contacts to quarantine at home voluntarily.

Contact tracing for COVID-19 typically involves.

  • Interviewing people with COVID-19 to identify everyone they had close contact with during the time they may have been infectious.
  • Notifying contacts of their potential exposure.
  • Referring contacts for testing.
  • Monitoring contacts for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.

(Reference: Google, LLC.)