07/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/29/2020. This web page, updated on July 29, 2020, provides resources for hospitals and healthcare professionals preparing for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in these topics: Healthcare Provider Checklist; Steps Healthcare Facilities Can Take; Healthcare Facility Guidance; Framework for Non-COVID-19 Care; COVID-19 Surge Tool; Hospital Preparedness Tool; Get Your Clinic Ready; Mitigating Staff Shortages; and Print Resources. (Text)
07/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 7/29/2020. This 46-page report describes, among other objectives, key characteristics of federal contracting obligations awarded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal agencies awarded $17.8 billion in contracts as of mid-June 2020 for critical goods and services supporting responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Contracts often play a key role in federal emergency response. (PDF)
07/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 7/29/2020. The COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious disease outbreaks have raised concern about the nation's ability to prevent, respond to, or mitigate potential public health emergencies. Congress allowed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to partner with a private, nonprofit entity to work on this problem. This 11-page report describes the status of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)'s implementation of the innovation partner authority. (PDF)
07/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/29/2020. This 11-page interim guidance supplements COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) documents by summarizing WHO guidance on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and waste management relevant to viruses, including coronaviruses. This document is an update to the interim guidance document entitled Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Waste Management for the COVID-19 Virus, published on April 23, 2020. (PDF)
07/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 7/29/2020. In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare has experienced significant shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95 respirators. In an effort to extend the use and reduce risks with reuse of untreated respirators, NETEC has developed this four-step decontamination procedure with the use of Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI). (Text)
07/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 7/28/2020. This 16-page rapid expert consultation builds on prior National Academies reports on the Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) and the rapid expert consultation on March 28, 2020, and focuses on staffing needs for the care of COVID-19 patients, including adjusting staff responsibilities, providing “hazard pay” to staff, ensuring adequate time off, offering child care and other benefits, and leveraging health care coalitions to ensure appropriate transfer of patients between hospitals. (Text)
07/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Food Programme (WFP). Published: 7/28/2020. This 12-page document, co-published with UNICEF, provides a non-exhaustive list of recommended multi-sectoral actions for government, UNICEF, World Food Programme, and other partners to consider as part of their short and longer-term planning for and implementation of school reopening. Part one of this checklist is focused on key nutrition actions, with part two focusing on child protection, WASH, education, and health actions. (PDF)
07/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/25/2020. This guidance is intended for use by any person, institution, or organization preparing for or responding to community transmission of COVID-19, and for those assisting these entities (e.g., national and local governments, CDC country offices, and others); it contains special considerations for mitigating the risks of resumption and sustained operation of schools in low-resource, international settings. (Text)
07/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Resolve to Save Lives. Published: 7/21/2020. This two-page list of information captures essential data required for an effective COVID-19 response. Information should be stratified by key demographic variables weekly, including race, sex, ethnicity, age and, where appropriate and available, zip code (all but indicators 5, 7, and 15 are available from some areas stratified in this way). Case and death data (indicators 1, 2, 9, and 13) should be stratified by whether they occurred in recognized outbreaks (e.g., in nursing homes or correctional facilities) or in the community. (PDF)
07/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 7/8/2020. This one-hour, 10-minute presentation discusses what is new in the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 and how this affected the decision-making processes on the management and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Even in the absence of data and insufficient knowledge of what may or may not work, the Mount Sinai Health System created treatment guidelines that were updated frequently based on physicians' observations and information gathered from multiple disciplines across the system. This is part of the NIH COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group Lecture Series. (Video or Multimedia)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 7/1/2020. This one-hour, two-minute presentation discusses a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak at a ski resort in Ischgl, Austria, that initiated the spread of SARS-CoV-2 throughout Austria and Northern Europe. Thousands of infections can be traced back to Ischgl. In a recent study by Medical University of Innsbruck investigators, 42.4 percent of those living in Ischgl were shown to be carrying the new coronavirus antibodies, indicating they had been infected in the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of the NIH COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group Lecture Series. (Video or Multimedia)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/2020. In this introductory course, participants will learn the essential components of effective infection prevention and control (IPC) programs, including multimodal strategies for implementation, at the national and facility level, according to scientific evidence and the advice of WHO and international experts. The course also defines how this strategy works to create systemic and cultural changes that improve IPC practices. (Video or Multimedia)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 7/2020. The purpose of this course is to provide guidance for health authorities and organizers of mass gatherings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the specific aim of containing risks associated with transmission of this infection. The course has been developed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, a WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health Security. (Video or Multimedia)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Published: 7/2020. This nine-page guidance, prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, can be applied to any incident involving mass fatalities when the local capacity to provide safe, appropriate and dignified burials is overwhelmed. It explains how to plan, prepare, and manage a cemetery. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 7/2020. This 164-page report evaluates the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of mobile phone surveillance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including political, economic, and social harms. The authors consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID-19 and future public health crises, and the protection of privacy and civil liberties. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 7/2020. As U.S. public health agencies consider COVID-19-related mobile surveillance programs, they will need to address privacy concerns to encourage broad uptake and protect against privacy harms. This eight-page report discusses how otherwise, COVID-19 mobile surveillance programs likely will be ineffective and the data collected unrepresentative of the situation on the ground. (PDF)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Published: 4/23/2020. This 50-minute webinar describes how community organizations, including libraries, have worked to support people who might otherwise be excluded during the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been achieved by providing access to technology and building digital skills, confidence, and digital health literacy. (Video or Multimedia)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 4/15/2020. This web page provides information and links to recordings for lectures in the National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group series, and will be updated at new lectures are presented. (Video or Multimedia)
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