COVID-19 resources

A collection of resources for the general public and the cardiovascular community from our Members and other public health organizations. Updates will be made as new information becomes available.

For more information on the link between COVID-19 and CVD, please visit our blog: ‘The Heart in the Time of COVID-19’.

COVID-19 Basics

• What is the novel coronavirus?, World Health Organization (WHO).
• What are the symptoms?, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
• How many cases are in my country?, Worldometers.
• How can I protect myself?, WHO.
• Are there effective treatments for COVID-19?, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
• Coronavirus: what it means for you if you have heart or circulatory disease, British Heart Foundation.
• Advice for people living with cardiovascular disease, Australian Heart Foundation.
• The Heart in the Time of the ‘Coronavirus’, Global Heart.

WHF’s webinar on COVID-19 basics, including signs and symptoms, transmissibility and clinical management​, World Heart Federation (26 March). 

Clinical recommendations

• COVID-19 Clinical Guidance For the Cardiovascular Care Team, American College of Cardiology (13 February 2020).
• Are patients with hypertension more likely to get serious COVID-19?, NephJC (16 March 2020).
• My patient has one of the underlying medical conditions listed what should I tell my patient?, CDC. 
• Can people who recover from COVID-19 be infected again?, CDC.
• Are pregnant healthcare personnel at increased risk for adverse outcomes if they care for patients with COVID-19?, CDC.
• Handbook of COVID-19 prevention and treatment, Global MediXchange for Combating COVID-19.
• AHA Guidance for CPR, Emergency CV Care Amid COVID-19, American Heart Association (23 March 2020)
• Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19): a guide for UK GPs, British Medical Journal.
• ESC COVID-19 videos, European Society of Cardiology (ESC),

Cardiac Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic, ESC.

Public Health recommendations

• COVID-19 and NCDs, WHO.
• Preventing COVID-19 spread in poor areas, WHF, (05 March 2020). 
• COVID-19 control in low-income settings and displaced populations: what can realistically be done?, Health in Humanitarian Crisis Centre, (20 March 2020).
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): What parents should know, UNICEF. 
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) isolation guidance, Australian Government Department of Health.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) information about home isolation when unwell (suspected or confirmed cases), Australian Government Department of Health.
• COVID-19 and the consequences of isolating the elderly, The Lancet (19 March 2020).
• Potential psychological effects of quarantine and how to mitigate them, UKIR.
• Exercise and eat healthy while in self-quarantine, WHO.
• COVID-19 and Chagas Disease, Chagas Coalition.
  • Q&A on COVID-19 and Chagas disease
  • Preguntas y Respuestas sobre COVID-19 y Chagas [Spanish]
  • Perguntas e Respostas sobre COVID-19 e Doença de Chagas [Portuguese]

American Heart Association Move More: Sofa Stretch, AHA. 

Useful sources of information

COVID-19 basics 

• World Health Organization
• Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Lancet Resource Centre
• John Hopkins Resource Centre
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• UK Research and Innovation

COVID-19 & CVD

• American College of Cardiology
• American Heart Association
• Argentina Society of Cardiology
• British Heart Foundation
• CROI Heart & Stroke
• Danish Heart Foundation
• Dutch Heart Foundation
• Dutch association for people with cardiovascular diseases (Harteraad)
• European Society of Cardiology
• Faroese Heart Foundation
• Finnish Heart Association
• German Heart Foundation
• Heart and Stroke Foundation
• Hellenic Heart Foundation
• Icelandic Heart Association
• Irish Heart Foundation
• Italian Heart Foundation
• National Heart Foundation of Australia
• Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke (NICHS)
• Portuguese Heart Foundation
• Spanish Heart Foundation
• Spanish Society of Cardiology
• Swedish Heart & Lung Association
• Swedish Heart Lung Foundation
• Swiss Heart Foundation