07/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/24/2020. This web page for school administrators provides answers to frequently asked questions about reopening schools, and planning and responding to COVID-19. (Text)
07/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/24/2020. This 54-page policy brief provides 11 policy objectives and key action points to prevent and manage COVID-19 across long-term care. It builds on currently available evidence on the measures taken to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID‑19 pandemic across long-term care services, including care providers. (PDF)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. This web page, updated on July 23, 2020, provides guidance for school and program administrators, parents, and caregivers, with sections on Preparing for a Safe Return to School, Operating Schools During COVID-19, Printable Posters and Graphics, and additional resources. (Text)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/23/2020. This 16-page document was developed to guide countries to conduct periodic review(s) of their national and subnational COVID-19 response, so countries do not miss critical opportunities for learning and improvement to better respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in their countries, especially as the possibility of a protracted pandemic becomes increasingly probable. (PDF)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. This guidance is intended to aid school administrators as they consider how to protect the health, safety, and well-being of students, teachers, other school staff, their families, and communities, and prepare for educating students this fall, with key COVID-19 considerations listed. (Text)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. The CDC suggests that all school reopening plans address adherence to behaviors that prevent the spread of COVID-19. When used consistently and correctly, cloth face coverings are important to help slow the spread of COVID-19. This web page provides general considerations for face coverings in schools. (Text)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. This web page provides guidance to K-12 schools on COVID-19 symptom screening as part of a school reopening process. The guidance detailed here is intended only for students in K-12 school settings. (Text)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. This web page provides guidance on Definitions of Diagnostic, Screening, and Surveillance Testing for SARS-CoV-2; Diagnostic or Screening Testing Using a Pooling Strategy; Surveillance Testing Using a Pooling Strategy; and Summary Tables. (Text)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 7/23/2020. This 11-page inter-agency guidance was jointly drafted by the International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and World Health Organization colleagues (in addition to consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Pan American Health Organization), and is targeted toward humanitarian settings. It aims to complement other guidance on the management of the dead with a stronger focus on the practical realities faced when dealing with the dead in humanitarian settings. (PDF)
07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R). Published: 7/23/2020. The COVID-19 Research Synergies Meetings took place on July 16-23, 2020, to bring together key stakeholders in the research response to combat COVID-19, and provide a platform to promote and establish collaboration and synergies between researchers funded by GloPID-R members. This web page provides the agenda, programs, and recordings of the four meetings. (Video or Multimedia)
07/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 7/22/2020. In this 54-minute webinar, participants discuss different policies and processes taken at long-term care facilities caring for COVID-19-positive residents based on case-based experiences, describe mitigation strategies involved to promptly identify and isolate residents with possible COVID-19 utilizing appropriate infection prevention practices, and describe the role of local and state public health in the identification, prevention, and control of COVID-19 in long-term facilities. (Video or Multimedia)
07/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 7/22/2020. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) joined the CDC Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) Team to present this 56-minute webinar featuring Dr. Melissa Brymer, Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Program UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, who discussed possible ways to support young people during COVID-19. She also described NCTSN’s available resources and outlined how to have conversations with children and adolescents about what is happening. (Video or Multimedia)
07/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 7/17/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Rapid COVID-19 IgM/IgG Combo Test Kit. The Rapid COVID-19 IgM/IgG Combo Test Kit is authorized for detection of IgG and IGM antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in serum and acid citrate dextrose (ACD) plasma specimens. (PDF)
07/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 7/14/2020. This 20-page Congressional testimony addresses the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts to acquire and distribute critical medical supplies. It discusses GAO’s recent report on the COVID-19 pandemic response and past work on other disasters, which identified potential challenges FEMA faces in responding to the pandemic and any future nationally significant biological incidents. (PDF)
07/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 7/14/2020. This three-page document, updated on July 14, 2020, provides resources in response to a request for precautions or guidance related to handling and viewing the remains of a deceased COVID-19 patient, as well as planning resources for mass fatality management. (PDF)
07/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 7/2/2020. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued this 34-page guidance, updated on July 2, 2020, to provide general considerations to assist sponsors in assuring the safety of trial participants in the conduct of clinical trials of medical products, maintaining compliance with good clinical practice (GCP), and minimizing risks to trial integrity during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 7/2020. The FDA is issuing this 12-page guidance to help facilitate the availability of devices for use in transporting certain clinical specimens, including transport media that can be used to transport certain clinical specimens for use with molecular Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) assays or antigen-detection diagnostic SARS-CoV-2 assays for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Edinburgh. Published: 7/2020. Along with providing a repository of COVID-19 evidence reviews for topics covering children, facemasks, lockdown, transmission, global reach, and ethnicity, Usher Network for COV(id) Evidence Reviews (UNCOVER) provides templates and tools to assist others in undertaking evidence reviews. (Text)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/1/2020. This nine-page document is a readiness and planning tool and checklist to share ways school administrators can help protect students, staff, and communities, and slow the spread of COVID-19. This tool aligns with the Considerations for Schools, and includes a General Readiness Assessment, Daily/Weekly Readiness Assessment, Preparing for if Someone Gets Sick, and Special Considerations and Resources. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/2020. This virtual conference was held from June 29 to July 21, 2020, to understand the multidisciplinary nature of infodemic management; identify current examples and tools to understand, measure, and control infodemics; build a public health research agenda to direct focus and investment in this emerging scientific field; and establish a community of practice and research. This 44-page report provides the agenda for the conference, and discusses how, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, an infodemic is an overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – occurring during an epidemic. (PDF)
06/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Minnesota Department of Health. Published: 6/8/2020. This three-page document provides guidance that is intended to assist in adhering to Minnesota executive orders impacting the funeral industry while protecting staff and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
06/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Indiana State Department of Health. Published: 6/3/2020. This seven-page document provides COVID-19 guidance for coroners, including about personal protective equipment, collection of postmortem specimens, and autopsy procedures. (PDF)
05/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Edinburgh. Published: 5/27/2020. This four-page report updates a previous review from April 2020 of the evidence exploring if homemade facemasks are effective at reducing transmission of COVID-19 in community settings, and found that the quality of the evidence available was very low. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration [U.S. Department of Labor] (OSHA). Published: 5/2020. This web page provides COVID-19 guidance for postmortem care workers, such as coroners, medical examiners, autopsy technicians, funeral directors, and other mortuary workers. The guidance supplements the general interim guidance for workers and employers of workers at increased risk of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2. It includes a table of examples of postmortem care tasks associated with exposure risk levels. (Text)
Guidance on the Role of Hospice Services in LTC (Long-Term Care) Facilities During COVID-19 Pandemic
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Published: 4/2020. This three-page document provides broad principles to consider and guidance on the role of hospice services in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as grief support for residents, families, staff. (PDF)
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