Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates | COVID-19

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

COVID-19: Mental Health and Wellbeing Surveillance Report

09/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 9/8/2020. This report, available with links to individual chapters, is about population mental health and well-being in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes up-to-date information to inform policy, planning, and commissioning in health and social care. (Text)

COVID-19: Long-Term Health Effects

09/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 9/7/2020. This document provides information on the health problems reported in COVID-19 cases following acute disease, and guidance for healthcare professionals on how to advise recovering COVID-19 patients. (Text)

Weight Management Services During COVID-19: Phase 1 Insights

09/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 9/7/2020. This 69-page document is a rapid review to gain an understanding of how the pandemic affected people in lockdown, changes to weight management delivery and commissioning, and how services need to adapt in response to the recovery strategy. (PDF)

Mutual Recognition Agreements in the Regulation of Medicines: Regulatory Reliance - If Not Now, When? What are the Current Barriers?

09/04/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published: 9/4/2020. This one-hour, 34-minute webinar focuses on the barriers to greater use of regulatory reliance during the COVID-19 pandemic by drawing upon messages from the recently released National Academies report on regulatory reliance. (Video or Multimedia)

Calculating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Laboratory Test Percent Positivity: CDC Methods and Considerations for Comparisons and Interpretation

09/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/3/2020. This web page about SARS-CoV-2 laboratory testing details Using Percent Positivity Calculation for Public Health Surveillance, Different Methods Used to Calculate Percent Positivity, CDC Methods for Calculating Percent Positivity, and Data resources where percent positivity for COVID-19 are currently reported. (Text)

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Admission and Care of People in Care Homes

09/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 9/2/2020. This guidance for how to protect care home residents and staff during the coronavirus outbreak is for care homes, local health protection teams, local authorities, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), and registered providers of accommodation for people who need personal or nursing care. (Text)

Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Published: 9/2020. Between August 7 and 16, 2020, nearly 500,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, South Dakota, for its annual motorcycle rally. Large crowds, coupled with minimal mask-wearing and social distancing by attendees, raised concerns that this event could serve as a COVID-19 “super-spreader.” This 63-page study is the first to explore the impact of this event on social distancing and the spread of COVID-19. (PDF)

Caring for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Published: 9/1/2020. This web page discusses the overall approach to minimizing the risk of infection while meeting the ongoing needs of children and youth with special health care needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Text)

ASHP Principles for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Allocation, and Mass Immunization

09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP). Published: 9/2020. This four-page document offers 10 principles for COVID-19 vaccine development, distribution, allocation, mass vaccination, monitoring, and surveillance. (PDF)

Advances in Science and Technology in the Life Sciences: Implications for Biosecurity and Arms Control

08/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Nations (UN). Published: 8/19/2020. This 36-page report summarizes several trends facilitating advances across the life sciences: immunology, neuroscience, human genetics and reproductive science, agriculture, and infectious disease. Though research and development in these fields is by and large conducted for peaceful purposes in order to benefit society, the same outputs can pose serious ethical, safety, and security concerns if they are misused. (PDF)

Collaborating to Learn from Hurricanes: The Nearshore Extreme Events Reconnaissance (NEER) Association

08/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Natural Hazards Center [University of Colorado at Boulder]. Published: 8/11/2020. This 32-minute webinar features the leaders of the National Science Foundation-supported Nearshore Extreme Events Reconnaissance (NEER) Association, which organizes interdisciplinary teams and supports travel for rapid, pre-event site characterization and instrument deployments to collect perishable data needed to understand impacts of major storms on the nearshore system. (Video or Multimedia)

Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Health

08/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Published: 8/2020. This 35-page paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e., those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. (PDF)

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Illustrated Guide for Community and Social Care Settings

07/31/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 7/31/2020. This eight-page guidance on personal protective equipment (PPE) is for health and social care workers working in the community during this period of sustained transmission of COVID-19. (PDF)

COVID-19: Paediatric Surveillance

07/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 7/28/2020. This web page provides information about how Public Health England, along with National Health Service partners and academic collaborators, has implemented a number of ongoing surveillance programs to monitor the course, progression, and outcomes of COVID-19 in children. (Text)

CONVERGE Federal Briefing: Rapid Response Disaster Research: NSF-Supported Research Networks and Resources

05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Natural Hazards Center [University of Colorado at Boulder]. Published: 5/20/2020. This one-hour briefing discusses National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported extreme events reconnaissance networks, as well as NSF-funded facilities that promote disaster data collection and publication, and summarizes the work of the CONVERGE Leadership Corps. (Video or Multimedia)

Guidance for Those Involved in Managing COVID-19 Deaths

04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 4/21/2020. This web page provides guidance in 12 categories for those involved in managing COVID-19 deaths. (Text)

Research Counts: Mass Sheltering and Disasters Special Collection

04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Natural Hazards Center [University of Colorado at Boulder]. Published: 4/2020. This collection of reports examines the public health aspects of mass sheltering and care with a special focus on at-risk populations. (Text)