03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 3/26/2020. This three-page document aims to provide advice on the use of cloth face masks and sterilization of respirators and surgical masks as an alternative in healthcare settings with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases if there is a shortage of specialized surgical masks and respirators. (PDF)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 3/26/2020. This five-page document provides guidance to European Union/European Economic Area Member States on environmental cleaning in healthcare and non-healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 3/26/2020. This 19-page report combines data on age-specific contact patterns and COVID-19 severity to project the health impact of the pandemic in 202 countries. It compares predicted mortality impacts in the absence of interventions or spontaneous social distancing with what might be achieved with policies aimed at mitigating or suppressing transmission. (PDF)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 3/26/2020. This Topic Collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) focuses on plans, tools, templates, and other immediately implementable resources to help with COVID-19 preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, focusing on the establishment and operation of Alternate Care Sites. (Text)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 3/26/2020. The resources in this Topic Collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) were created by federal agencies and their partners to help healthcare providers, caregivers, and the general population prepare for and manage the negative behavioral effects that can accompany a public health emergency, and specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. (Text)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/25/2020. This 11-page checklist, updated on March 25, 2020, can help hospitals assess and improve their preparedness for responding to a community-wide outbreak of COVID-19. Each hospital will need to adapt this checklist to meet its unique needs and circumstances. This checklist should be used as one of several tools for evaluating current plans or in developing a comprehensive COVID-19 preparedness plan. (Text)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/25/2020. This is a spreadsheet-based model that provides information for healthcare facilities to plan and optimize the use of PPE for response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Non-healthcare facilities (e.g., correctional facilities) may find this tool useful for planning and optimizing PPE use as part of the response to COVID-19. This tool can also be used for planning PPE use outside the context of COVID-19, where PPE shortages may also occur due to supply chain issues related to the COVID-19 response (e.g. manufacturing facilities). (Text)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 3/25/2020. This 31-page report details how COVID-19 is rapidly spreading in Europe, and the current assessment is that the risk of severe disease associated with COVID-19 for people in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) is currently considered moderate for the general population and very high for older adults and individuals with chronic underlying conditions. The risk of healthcare system capacity being exceeded in the EU/EEA and the UK in the coming weeks is considered high. (PDF)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 3/25/2020. This 14-page document provides guidance on a set of targeted immediate actions that countries should consider at the national, regional, and local level to reorganize and maintain access to essential quality health services for all. It complements existing and forthcoming World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on the wider implications of COVID-19 for health systems and cross-government strategies for responding to the COVID-19 outbreak, including region-specific technical guidance being developed by WHO Regional Offices. (PDF)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 3/25/2020. In this one-hour Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) call, presenters provide a COVID-19 update and discuss strategies for healthcare facilities to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies such as eye protection, isolation gowns, facemasks, and N95 respirators. (Video or Multimedia)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Published: 3/25/2020. This one-hour, eight-minute webinar discusses how state legislatures and local health departments stand on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic response. All states, territories, and Washington, DC, have declared public health emergencies. Speakers provide insight on what public health actions are being taken on the state and national level, and what steps appear to be working during this unprecedented time. (Video or Multimedia)
03/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/25/2020. Establishing alternative care sites (ACS) will help address surge in the response to COVID-19. This guidance provides critical infection prevention and control (IPC) considerations for ACS and is intended to supplement existing ACS plans (created by jurisdictions as part of pandemic planning). (Text)
03/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 3/24/2020. In response to the evolving COVID-19 public health emergency and continued filtering facepiece respirator (FFR or respirator) shortages, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded based on the totality of scientific evidence available that certain imported disposable FFRs that are not approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are appropriate to protect the public health or safety. Authorized respirators listed in Table 1 of this seven-page letter are authorized for use in healthcare settings by healthcare personnel. (PDF)
03/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 3/24/2020. This six-page interim guidance is for all those, including managers of health care facilities and mortuaries, religious and public health authorities, and families, who tend to the bodies of persons who have died of suspected or confirmed COVID-19. (PDF)
03/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 3/24/2020. This eight-page report provides information about how China has successfully exited its stringent social distancing policy to some degree. Policies implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in China and the exiting strategies that followed can inform decision-making processes for countries once containment is achieved. (PDF)
03/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 3/23/2020. This guidance, updated on March 23, 2020, is a reference to guide healthcare personnel regarding discontinuing transmission-based precautions and discharging hospitalized patients with COVID-19. It includes updated guidance for a test-based strategy. (Text)
03/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 3/20/2020. This six-page report summarizes the findings of a survey that was completed by 2,108 United Kingdom adults on March 17-18, 2020, about new actions to control COVID-19. Findings include that 93 percent of adults reported personally taking at least one measure to protect themselves from COVID-19 infection. (PDF)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: American Medical Association (AMA). Published: 3/2020. This web page for health care professionals provides answers to 10 frequently asked questions about COVID-19. Topics include travel, testing, treatment, and self-care. (Text)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Published: 3/2020. This 31-page document is intended to provide leaders and public officials at any state, city, or local level with a support tool to assist in informed strategy and decision-making on how to combat COVID-19 in their jurisdiction. It provides context and advice on how to tailor principles of outbreak control strategy, disaster management, and evolving knowledge on COVID-19 dynamics to different local conditions. (PDF)
07/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Northwest Healthcare Response Network. Published: 7/2019. This 39-page document outlines regional roles and responsibilities, provides a regional decision-making framework and implementation process, and outlines the coordination of healthcare, local health jurisdictions (LHJs), and other regional and state partners during scarce resource management. It provides Critical Care Algorithms, Scarce Resource Cards, and Triage Team Guidelines and Worksheets. (PDF)
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