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Swiss Office of Public Health: Official information from Swiss Federation in German, French, Italian, & English.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: Up-to-date information on COVID-19.

WHO (World Health Organization): Information and updates on the spread of COVID-19 in multiple languages.

Medicins Sans Frontières/ Doctors without Borders: This transnational site is short, sweet, to the point and has video and visual information.  It is in French and English and updated regularly.

Center for Disease Control (CDC): The CDC is usually a reliable source of information.

ABDO: This educational publisher is providing free access to its ebooks on illness prevention and facts, with titles on vaccines, epidemiology, and past outbreaks.

Kids Health form Nemours — Kids Health has information on COVID-19 for children in English and  Spanish and available in audio.  Other sections of their website have information for parent.

BrainPOP — Coronavirus – BrainPOP is a surprisingly entertaining, at time humorous, basic explanation of COVID-19 and needed precautions for elementary age children and young teens.

Graphic Medicine — A collection of online COVID-19 comics with links to and reviews of graphic novels about the experience of illness.

Child Mind Institute: Talking to kids about the coronavirus.

Kids Health: How to talk to your child about the coronavirus.

National Assoc. of School Psychologists: How to talk to your child about the coronavirus.

Social Distance Learning: Resources for families during distance learning.

Little Twisters Yoga: Free home yoga plans.

Voices of Youth: UNICEF’s online bulletin board where children and teenagers around the world discuss issues that affect their lives.

FactCheck: Use this site to check up on political claims. Monitors factual accuracy of politicians’ statements.

Hoax Slayer: A service that debunks or validates internet rumors and hoaxes.

Snopes: Fact-checking site for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. Submit a claim & researchers will investigate. Ratings: true, mostly true, false, or legend.

Opensources: A list of news sources categorized by type (fake, satire, bias, junk science, political, credible, etc.). Curated by professional librarians.

NewsGuard (Chrome): Green or Red “nutrition label” for websites. News sites are evaluated based on 9 standards of credibility & transparency.

Media Bias Fact Check Icon (Chrome, Firefox): Indicates level of political bias for current web page. Extreme, left, left-center, least biased, right-center, right, extreme.

Media Bias Facebook (Chrome, Firefox): Indicates level of political bias for news sources in Facebook feed.

Surfsafe (Chrome, Firefox, Opera): Evaluates authenticity of images. Yellow icon appears as a warning. Request a fact-check for a suspicious image.