09/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/18/2020. This web page, updated on September 18, 2020, provides guidance for school and program administrators, parents, and caregivers, with sections on Reopening: Decision-Making Indicators, Printable Posters and Graphics, and additional resources. (Text)
09/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/18/2020. CDC is conducting seroprevalence surveys called “large-scale geographic seroprevalence surveys” in locations across the United States. The first seroprevalence surveys began in areas that first reported community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States; they are now being expanded to more regions. Descriptions of these surveys are provided on this web page. (Text)
09/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/18/2020. As K-12 schools reopen for in-person instruction, it is important to have systems in place for the monitoring and evaluation of COVID-19 mitigation strategies. Monitoring and evaluation provide practical information for making timely decisions, addressing community needs, and identifying best practices to promote the health, safety, and well-being of students, faculty, and staff. (Text)
09/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/18/2020. This web page, updated on September 18, 2020, provides COVID-19 guidance resources for administrators, faculty, and staff of institutes of higher education, including when to quarantine. (Text)
09/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/17/2020. This web page, updated on September 17, 2020, provides communication resources for health departments' COVID-19 contact tracing, under these topics: Main Message, Talking Points, Sample Public Service Announcements, Sample Social Media Posts, and Questions and Answers. (Text)
09/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Kingdom Department of Health (DH). Published: 9/17/2020. This web page provides guidance that is designed to help people respond safely to incidents involving hazardous substances, including acid attacks. (Text)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 9/16/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Visby Medical COVID-19. The Visby Medical COVID-19 is authorized for use with nasopharyngeal, nasal, or mid-turbinate swab specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/16/2020. This web page describes N95 and other respirators, and how to learn strategies to optimize supplies of N95 respirators when supply is limited. (Text)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/16/2020. This web page answers frequently asked questions about calculating severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RT-PCR laboratory test percent positivity, including how a high percent positivity can be reduced. (Text)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/16/2020. This web page provides suggestions to assist disaster response shelter management and staff in taking appropriate actions for reducing the possibility of COVID-19 virus spread among shelter staff, volunteers, residents, and visitors before, during, or after a disaster. (Text)
09/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/16/2020. This web page provides suggestions for how Community Health Workers (CHWs) can support home-based care in low resource settings, including different actions CHWs can implement to support patients, their families, and their communities during COVID-19, and how to identify which people are eligible for home-based care. (Text)
09/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 9/14/2020. This 14-page Values Framework offers guidance globally on the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines between countries, and guidance nationally on the prioritization of groups for vaccination within countries while supply is limited. It has been endorsed by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE). (PDF)
09/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 9/14/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the MAGLUMI 2019-nCoV IgM/IgG. The MAGLUMI 2019-nCoV IgM/IgG is authorized for the detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in human serum and serum in separating gel tubes (SST). (PDF)
09/12/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/12/2020. This guide compares the District Health Information Software (DHIS2), the Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS), Go.Data, Open Data Kit (ODK), Epi Info, CommCare, KoboToolbox, Excel, and paper. Each has been deployed in various countries for contact tracing, investigations, and/or, in the case of DHIS2 and SORMAS, national surveillance. (Text)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Published: 9/10/2020. This one-hour, 51-minute forum features healthcare professionals, former national security leaders, and risk management executives who discuss the wide reaching impacts of health and the COVID-19 pandemic on geopolitical risks and considerations for public and private resiliency. (Video or Multimedia)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/10/2020. This web page provides information for health departments about contact tracing for COVID-19, and a summary of COVID-19-specific practices. (Text)
09/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 9/10/2020. This guidance is for Institutes of Higher Education with international travel or study abroad programs, who should consider postponing or canceling these student international travel programs. (Text)
09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 9/2020. This 254-page report reviews the scientific evidence regarding respiratory health outcomes in veterans of the Southwest Asia conflicts, and identifies research that could feasibly be conducted to address outstanding questions and generate answers, newly emerging technologies that could aid in these efforts, and organizations that the Veterans Administration might partner with to accomplish this work. (Text)
09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Published: 9/2020. Using data on access to education, healthcare, housing, nutrition, sanitation, and water from more than 70 countries, this three-page document finds that around 45 percent of children were severely deprived of at least one of these critical needs before the coronavirus pandemic even hit. The situation for children living in multidimensional poverty is likely to worsen unless national governments and the international community step up to soften the blow. (PDF)
09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Mitre. Published: 9/2020. This 186-page report summarizes an independent review and comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to identify opportunities for improvement and inform immediate and future action. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requested this commission of experts to solicit lessons learned from the early days of the pandemic and recommendations for future actions to improve infection prevention and control measures, safety procedures, and the quality of life of residents within nursing homes. (PDF)
09/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 9/2020. This 11-page briefing note focuses on the remote collection and use of data for adaptive management during the COVID-19 pandemic, setting out key considerations to help practitioners think through a transition from more traditional monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) to MEL for adaptive management (MEL4AM) that reflects the unique data collection challenges presented by COVID-19. (PDF)
08/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 8/22/2020. This web page provides guidance that was created to help owners, administrators, or operators of shared (also called “congregate”) housing facilities – working together with residents, staff, and public health officials – prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Text)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: American Red Cross (ARC). Published: 1/2020. After a systematic review of the literature and an evaluation by an expert panel on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for older adults, 25 final evidence-informed expert recommendations for intervention are proposed in this 56-page document to reduce adverse outcomes for older adults during and after disasters. (PDF)
11/05/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] (CDC NIOSH). Published: 11/5/2019. The purpose of this web page is to discuss some of the health and safety hazards that homeowners and workers may encounter after a wildfire. Although the types of hazards may be different for each wildfire, the page describes 13 common hazards. (Text)
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