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ORGANIZATIONS AND WEBSITES

Center for Infectious Disease Research and
Policy (CIDRAP)—www.cidrap.umn.edu
Maintained by the University of Minnesota, CIDRAP has
made several resources available about COVID-19. Visitors
to the group’s website can fi nd maps charting the spread of
the disease; a timeline reporting how the disease emerged
from Wuhan, China; and a video showing how the disease
spread, county by county, in America.

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
www.centerforhealthsecurity.org

The center examines pandemics and other international health
threats. By accessing the link for “Medical and Public Health
Preparedness and Response,” visitors can download copies of
the organization’s report A National Plan to Enable Comprehen-
sive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US.

Mayo Clinic—www.mayoclinic.org

The renowned medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota,
maintains a website that is following the development of vac-
cines for COVID-19. It discusses the different types of vac-
cines under development as well as the expected timeline that
must unfold before they can be made available to the public.

Mütter Museum—http://muttermuseum.org

Maintained by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the
Mütter Museum features exhibits on past pandemics that
have affl icted the world. Visitors to the museum’s website can
fi nd a story and photographs behind the museum’s exhibit
Spit Spreads Death: The Infl uenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in
Philadelphia.

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