Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Missing topics

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Which topics related to COVID-19 are missing from Wikipedia? This could be an aspect of the pandemic or how it impacts a certain group of people, it could be an important person or any other related topic.

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  • Subject: The name of the topic e.g Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ....
  • Description: A one sentence description of the topic.
  • Reference sources: One or more quality reference sources that explain the topic, these could be newspaper articles, academic journal articles, publications etc. The more references sources you can provide the easier it will be to add the information to Wikipedia.

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  1. Write about the subject on Wikipedia, either as a new Wikipedia article or as a section to one or more existing articles, or alternatively start a draft and share it in the table
  2. Find more references for the subjects and add them to the table.
  3. Create a Wikidata item for the subject, this will allow Wikiprojects, other language Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects to understand what is missing.

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Suggested topics[edit]

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Subject Description Reference sources Where this has been added in Wikipedia (including draft articles) Wikidata item Notes
Naming of the COVID-19 pandemic The article could be translated from Chinese into English See zh:2019冠状病毒病名称争议
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/55/contents/made
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/103/contents/made
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/308/contents/made Q96714735
Personal Protective Equipment shortages in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic In draft article draft here, please contribute to it I've been collating reference sources and adding them to a draft article, I would appreciate some help in writing the article. John Cummings (talk) 11:05, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Medmedia.am https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/us-funding-website-spreading-covid-19-disinformation US State Department funded website spreading Covid-19 disinformation
social bubble Q95692663
travel bubble Q95692585
Epidemiology of COVID-19 by job [work being a determinant of risk]. (draft) Such info could also be integrated in the main articles on the disease and the pandemic.


A related article is Workplace hazard controls for COVID-19

City Government's response to COVID in India News articles currently is work in progress. please contact to assist Tanyasingh (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Coronavirus pandemic impact on older people https://www.unfpa.org/resources/implications-covid-19-older-persons-responding-pandemic
Impact of COVID-19 on health systems
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African-Americans
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transportation infrastructure Would talk about things like The Atlantic's "The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities" article and note how many streets have been repurposed during the pandemic to give space to restaurants rather than cars in ways that might stick around after. In addition to Atlantic piece, here's a photo you can use, relating to [1] Nowhere yet. Closest existing related topic is Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport. None yet.
The impact of COVID-19 in humanitarian and food crisis contexts Anticipating the impacts of COVID-19 in humanitarian and food crisis contexts
The impacts on COVID-19 on agriculture various FAO sources TBD
The impacts on COVID-19 on food safety Food Safety in the time of COVID-19 and other sources TBD
Imported case
Essential business and government function
Essential activity
Close contact (draft)
Presumptive case
Comparison of COVID-19 vaccines cf. many of our "Comparison of" articles
COVID-19 Vaccination requirements for international travel A summary of which vaccine is available in a particular country and whivh ones, while not available for use, is recognized as valid vaccine for entry need list of vaccine passport apps

Suggest having COVID-19 treatment standards used by country added. There are many countries who use specific medical practices and drugs. That is currently not included in any of the WIKI Covid related pages. I don't have a specific link, but note it is an important piece of information that is currently not included

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