domingo, 20 de septiembre de 2020

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Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

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09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 9/16/2020. This 57-page document serves as an interim playbook for state, territorial, and local public health programs and their partners on how to plan and operationalize a vaccination response to COVID-19 within their jurisdictions. The document’s sections cover specific areas of COVID-19 vaccination program planning and implementation, and provide key guidance documents and links to resources to assist those efforts. (PDF)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Published: 9/16/2020. This 11-page report to Congress details a strategy to achieve the principal purpose and objective of Operation Warp Speed (OWS): ensuring that every American who wants to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can receive one, by delivering safe and effective vaccine doses to the American people beginning January 2021. (PDF)
09/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Published: 9/15/2020. This web page, updated on September 15, 2020, provides evidence-based rapid guidelines intended to support patients, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals in their decisions about treatment and management of patients with COVID-19. The guideline panel agreed on seven treatment recommendations, and provided narrative summaries of other treatments undergoing evaluations. (Text)
09/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/15/2020. This web page provides indicators to help schools make dynamic decisions about in-person learning as local conditions evolve throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. When coupled with local data about community spread, these indicators are an important tool to help local health officials, school administrators, and communities prepare, plan, and respond to COVID-19. (Text)
09/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 9/15/2020. In this one-hour, six-minute Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) webinar, presenters discuss the intersection of telehealth and health equity and implications for health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. They identify long-standing systemic health and social inequities that contribute to COVID-19 health disparities, while highlighting opportunities and limitations of telehealth implementation as an actionable solution. (Video or Multimedia)
09/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Cochrane Library. Published: 9/15/2020. This 75-page report details a rapid review to assess the effectiveness of universal screening for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection compared with no screening, and the accuracy of universal screening in people who have not presented to clinical care for symptoms of COVID‐19. (PDF)
09/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/11/2020. These considerations are intended for countries where access to basic essential health services is constrained due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that have an underlying health workforce shortage, and that are considering implementation of a task shifting or sharing approach to strengthen and expand the health workforce for the delivery of COVID-19 care and other essential health services. (Text)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 9/10/2020. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is striving to combat the COVID-19 pandemic through a multifaceted approach that includes ensuring that the resources and support needed to manage stress and promote mental health are available. To support this effort, NIH presented this one-hour lecture on coping with the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Congressional Research Service [Library of Congress] (CRS). Published: 9/10/2020. This 15-page report discusses how the prolonged battle to contain the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), coupled with what appear to be more frequent outbreaks in the country, raises questions about the allocation of U.S. global health resources and bilateral aid for DRC. (PDF)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Montana State University. Published: 9/10/2020. This 50-minute webinar highlights the connections between opioids and other types of substance misuse, incarceration, and chronic health conditions/early death of those who spend time in jail/prison. The discussion includes information about the linkages between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), opioid misuse, chronic health conditions, health disparities, criminal activity, and imprisonment across the country. (Video or Multimedia)
09/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 9/9/2020. This guidance from the Division of Select Agents and Toxins, updated in September 2020, provides a list of product exemptions and investigational product exemption requirements for select toxins. (Text)
07/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of California, Davis. Published: 7/16/2020. The purpose of this COVID-19 survey is to facilitate a rapid research response to the COVID-19 pandemic that will describe the affected population of frontline workers, their vulnerabilities, and their most urgent needs; and identify critical unmet needs and compare across geographic areas, types of facilities, job types, and sociodemographic characteristics. Population: Adult Workers Length: 80 questions Time to Complete: 15-20 minutes Mode of Administration: Online (e.g., computer-assisted interview) Pen and Paper Telephone Administered by: Self Administered Language(s): English, Spanish (PDF)

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