COVID-19 Visual Media Resource
We are collecting visual resources by BMC faculty, students, and alumni for science and health communication around COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. Please feel free to use these for your teaching or communication around issues relating to the pandemic.
Entries marked with a star (⭐️) are available under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license, but be sure to check the details with each entry. This license means that the resource can be used by anyone, even for commercial uses, as long as it is properly attributed and not altered (see here for details https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/).
If you have any questions about this, please contact Prof. Nick Woolridge.
MScBMC Student Katrina Haas and Amir Arellano Saab (a PhD candidate in the Department of Cell and Systems Biology) have developed a website (sciforall.org) that seeks to make the structural biology science behind COVID more accessible with support from UofT and TakingItGlobal. Their supervisor is Dr. Peter J. Stogios.
Most recently they created an infographic about the new COVID-19 variants for the public.
SARS-C0V-2 3D Printable Models & More from NIH, NIAID
BMC Alum Kristen Browne has been involved in a number of projects highlighting COVID-19 and the SARS-C0V-2 virus, including:
A 3D printable virion model, part of the NIH’s collection SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 resources
A Pathogen AR app, allowing users to “…Explore interactive stories about pathogens and pathogenic disease using touch gestures…”
The 3D prints have been used by Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci as part of their public education and outreach efforts.
⭐️ SARS-COV-2 VIRUS PARTICLE ILLUSTRATIONS & Animations
3D illustrations and animations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: starting as the whole particle, and cutting away to reveal the viral RNA packed into the core.
Details on the references used are available at my web site https://www.nickwoolridge.xyz/
This work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This means you can use the work for any purpose, even commercial, but you must credit the creator, and no derivative works are allowed.
Please credit them to “Nick Woolridge / Biomedical Communications”.
Download animations:
Download 3000 x 3000 px JPGs here:
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⭐️ COVID-19: How does it affect you?
A concise and easy to follow description of COVID-19 pathology from MScBMC (class of 2019) alum Avesta Rastan.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To download, and to see references, go to Avesta’s web site.
AXS Biomedical Animation Studio: The difference between vaccines and antiviral treatments
In the media barrage about novel coronavirus, we’ve seen headlines about potential COVID-19 vaccines & COVID-19 treatments. AXS Biomedical Animation Studio made this animation to explain the difference between vaccines and antiviral treatments, and how they can limit the spread of viruses like COVID-19.
The watercolour rendering was made possible by Artineering's MNPRX renderer for Maya: https://artineering.io/software/MNPRX/
*Please note that the virus model represented in this video is of a generic human coronavirus and is not specific to any sub-group.
COVID-19 and the Science of Soap
INVIVO Communications has created an animation, “The Science of Soap”, to visualize how soap kills the SARS-CoV-2virus. They have also developed a Hololens app called the Coronavirus Explorer.
⭐️ Comic: How does the COVID-19 virus Infect humans?
Inspired by some recent articles on the COVID-19 virus, Biomedical Communications student Christine Shan created a medical comic. The second year graduate student’s graphic story explains—in a really accessible way—how the COVID-19 virus infects humans. Designed specifically for Instagram's platform, her coronavirus comic is perfect for sharing. This resource is available for download at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kzmyb0rdwpr2bxc/AADVHBmsFOjmPt5pcH_BFoswa?dl=0
Shan, whose Insta-handle is @baozi_illustrataions, also shared her reading list:
Why the coronavirus has been so successful by Ed Yong, The Atlantic
From bats to human lungs, the evolution of a coronavirus by Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker
References:
Structural basis for the recognition of SARS-CoV-2 by full-length human ACE2 by Yan, Zhang, Li, Xia, Guo and Zhou, Science
The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade by Coutard, Valle, de Lambellerie, Canard, Seidah, Decroly, Antiviral Research
Novel coronavirus structure reveals targets for vaccines and treatments, NIH Research Matters
⭐️ COVID-19: Why social distancing is so Important
A short animation on the importance of social distancing by Nicholas Woolridge, an Associate Professor in the MScBMC program. This resource is available for download at:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2puqb0143ffhlk/Imp_Social_Distancing_Canada_data.mp4?dl=0
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
⭐️ COVID-19
This public health infographic was created by Year I MScBMC student Xiaoyi Chloe Ma as part of a data visualization project. It is available for download from dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kv4yyojgkgezdac/AAB7MjyXyd5Y5iLz9js3GRo3a?dl=0
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
⭐️ COVID-19: Around the World in 60 Days
This infographic was created by Year I MScBMC student Jennifer Barolet as part of a data visualization project. It describes the trajectory of COVID-19 over two months and is available for download from dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kv4yyojgkgezdac/AAB7MjyXyd5Y5iLz9js3GRo3a?dl=0
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Coronavirus Illustrations for Free Download
Felix Donghwi Son, MScBMC Class of 2019, has researched and created a collection of science-based Coronavirus visualizations, which he has made available for free here: https://www.felixvis.com/coronavirus
⭐️What We Know So Far: COVID & The Brain
Many patients of all ages have been reporting brain fog and intense exhaustion months after recovering from even mild COVID-19. These brain-related complications of COVID-19 are seen throughout the course of the disease. What are they? Why are they happening?
An ss-design and Robson Visuals collaboration. This resource is available for download on Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TOnE8nOed87oDupB-Os2qUxwg3en9-W8/view?usp=sharing
Contact: s.saharan@mail.utoronto.ca, @Shay_Sah (Twitter), @shehryar.art (Instagram); naomi.robson@mail.utoronto.ca, @robson_visuals (Twitter and Instagram)
This work is freely available with a CC-BY-4.0 license. For use of this image, please acknowledge Shehryar (Shay) Saharan, and Naomi Robson.
Other Visual Resources
The following science-based resources are available elsewhere on the web; please check with the usage rights associated with these images.
The Association of Medical Illustrators
The Association of Medical Illustrators’ collection of COVID-19 resources: https://www.ami.org/press/press-releases/2020/402-medical-and-scientific-visualization-of-covid-19
Veronica Falconieri Hays
An illustration showing the molecular mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. By Veronica Falconieri: https://falconierivisuals.com/?p=916
RCSB PDB COVID-19 Resources
The RCSB has a series of images and animations on their COVID-19 Resources page.