09/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 9/2/2020. Corticosteroids have received worldwide attention as a potentially effective treatment for COVID-19. This 25-page guideline reflects an innovation from the World Health Organization, driven by an urgent need for global collaboration to provide trustworthy and living COVID-19 guidance informing policy and practice worldwide during an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, such as this pandemic. (PDF)
08/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 8/28/2020. This fact sheet provides information about opioid overdose, including risk factors for opioid overdose, emergency responses to opioid overdose, and prevention of opioid overdose. (Text)
08/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 8/28/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the DxTerity SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR CE Test. The DxTerity SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR CE Test is authorized for use with saliva specimens collected from individuals consistent with the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). (PDF)
08/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 8/28/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of a Molecular LDT COVID-19 Authorized Test called the PCL SARS-CoV-2 Real-Time RT-PCR Assay that has been issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by FDA. The Molecular LDT COVID-19 Authorized Test is authorized for use on certain respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
08/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Resolve to Save Lives. Published: 8/27/2020. This 18-page document draws on scientific evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic and from prior public health research on behavior change, with the purpose of empowering governments to measure face mask use in their jurisdictions and promote widespread adoption of masks in the general population. Annexes to the report, infographics, and press releases are included in the related playbook. (PDF)
08/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published: 8/27/2020. This Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI) workshop, held on August 26-27, 2020, delves into the rapidly evolving science on the spread of the SAR-CoV-2 virus, as part of a larger body of COVID-19 related work at the National Academies. It features experts in aerosol science, virology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. This page provides videos and materials from the workshop. (Video or Multimedia)
08/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of New Hampshire (UNH). Published: 8/27/2020. This eight-page brief discusses the likely influence that the age structure and the incidence of pre-existing health conditions have on the risks of those exposed to COVID-19 in rural and urban counties in the United States. (PDF)
08/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: UNAIDS. Published: 8/27/2020. This 76-page report outlines 10 immediate areas for action for governments toward building effective, rights-based COVID-19 responses. These include taking proactive measures to ensure that people, particularly people in vulnerable groups, can access HIV treatment and prevention services; designating and supporting essential workers, including community-led organizations; and implementing measures to prevent and address gender-based violence. (PDF)
08/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 8/26/2020. This web page provides suggestions for community mitigation measures in densely populated, international, low-resource settings, and describes implementation considerations associated with each measure. Community mitigation activities are actions that people and communities can take to prevent or reduce local COVID-19 transmission. (Text)
08/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM). Published: 8/21/2020. This one-hour, five-minute webinar explores how the environmental justice movement can address air pollution, health disparities, and COVID-19, and offers solutions to improve health outcomes. Speakers discuss what contributes to air pollution, how environmental injustice has been highlighted during COVID-19, and how neighborhoods experiencing environmental injustice face poorer air quality and extreme heat while also bearing the brunt of this pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
08/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 8/20/2020. The information on this page provides an expanded focus on the health and safety of K-12 school staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategies also provide workplace safety and health information for administrators related to protecting teachers, substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, janitorial/maintenance staff, office staff, school nutrition staff, school nurses/health professionals, school bus drivers and bus aides, coaching staff and athletic trainers, and music, choir, and performing arts teachers. (Text)
08/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Published: 8/2020. Compassion and empathy have been relentlessly challenged by multiple epidemics in the United States. This two-page brief examines the opioid overdose epidemic as a case study in compassion fatigue during public health epidemics. (PDF)
08/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 8/2020. This web page provides links to documents and guidance about ambulatory personal protective equipment (PPE) for COVID-19. (Text)
08/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Well Being Trust (WBT). Published: 8/2020. This 34-page action guide, published with the de Beaumont Foundation, is intended for local policymakers and civic institutions (e.g., universities, hospitals, and other organizations that play a vital role in their local communities and economies; chambers of commerce; philanthropies; and multi-sector collaboratives). It provides recommendations that can be implemented to address mental health in both the immediate response and recovery phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
05/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/21/2020. This web page provides information about Contact Tracing Resources; Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Guidance; Principles of Contact Tracing; COVIDTracer; Contact Tracing Communications Toolkit; Contact Tracing Training; Evaluating PUIs Residential; and Contact Tracing: Frequently Asked Questions for Health Departments. (PDF)
03/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 3/24/2020. This 51-minute video discusses how to understand resilience; increase resilience, including stress management, healthy thinking, positive emotions, social support, sleep, diet, and exercise; ask for help; and develop a Resilience Roadmap. (Video or Multimedia)
03/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: UNAIDS. Published: 3/20/2020. As seen from the solidarity, support, and power of communities in the HIV epidemic and already in communities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the response must not be fear and stigma. This 20-page report details how the response to COVID-19 must be grounded in the realities of people’s lives and focused on eliminating the barriers people face in being able to protect themselves and their communities. (PDF)
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