Literature on SARS-CoV-2 / Covid-19 (English)

COVID-19: The need of an integrated and critical view by Charbel N. El-Hani and Virgílio Machado in the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation. An opinion piece on the need of an integrated and critical view of COVID-19, which also explores its interpretation as a wicked problem, the necessity of arguing for the value of academic sciences without falling into scientism, and the role of values in scientific research on the pandemic.

COVID-19 coronavirus research has overall low methodological quality thus far: case in point for chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine by P.E. Alexander and colleagues. A paper on the methodological quality of research on COVID-19.

Inflamed brains, toe rashes, strokes. This is a well-written summary of new symptoms appearing as our knowledge of the disease unfolds, which are mostly related to the way the immune system answers to SARS-CoV-2.

The online journal Frontiers’ Knowledge Hub. A trusted source for the latest science on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

Of viruses and men: The dangerous pandemic in the social sciences. In: Eurozine by Koray Caliskan and Donald MacKenzie (April 15, 2020). An informative essay aiming at an analysis why in the past the social sciences have taken so little interest in pathogens.

Scared, supportive and confident in science (but a little confused by expert communication). Trends and changes in the perception of the pandemic: the new data from the Science in Society Monitor by Massimiano Bucchi and Barbara Saracino (April 19, 2020). A sociological analysis on the attitude of Italian citizens towards Covid-19 and scientific experts.