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COVID-19 Resources
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like. Credit: NIAID-RML (CC By 2.0)
This guide signposts staff to a variety of resources which may assist in dealing with the current outbreak of COVID-19. It includes links to clinical material, but also includes links to sites focused on staff mental health and wellbeing, ideas for parents who are homeschooling and many other resources. We hope that it proves helpful.
If you need help obtaining any information, please do not hesitate to contact your library team! We can be reached via email: library@royalberkshire.nhs.uk, or via telephone extension 7849.
Stay safe and take care, everyone.
The Library ran a regular update charting the progress of COVID-19, from 06 April 2020 to 01 October 2021, with a special one off in November, with the outbreak of the Omicron variant.
All previous updates can be found on the Intranet: Covid-19 Current Awareness Updates. If you are not a member of staff at the Trust and wish to access it, please email library@royalberkshire.nhs.uk.
27/01/22: NICE has just produced new recommendations to our rapid guideline on managing COVID-19. These cover:
and added a statement about the Omicron variant to the recommendation on casirivimab and imdevimab.
The last two RBH updates are below: