04/14/2020 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: 4/14/2020. 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 outpatient settings. (Text)
04/14/2020 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: 4/14/2020. 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 home-based healthcare resources. (Text)
04/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Montana. Published: 4/13/2020. The authors of this nine-page document developed, factor-analyzed, and validated these questionnaires across three COVID-19 studies. Participants were recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (a common recruitment tool in the social sciences). They were from the United States and came from every region of the U.S. in numbers proportional to the populations in those regions. Newly-selected participants completed the survey once online in a cross-sectional design. The sample had typical Mechanical Turk characteristics for age (range = 20 to 76, mean age = 41), gender (48% female), and race/ethnicity (largest groups were White/European-American = 78%, Asian = 9%, and Black/African-American = 7%). The method they followed was to use Exploratory Factor Analyses in Study 1, then use Confirmatory Factor Analyses in Studies 2 and 3 to hone the questionnaires. We further validated the questionnaires by showing they had expected correlations with other important variables (e.g., political ideology). This work offers researchers a battery of social psychological questionnaires to measure coronavirus-related phenomena for the duration of the pandemic in U.S. participants. (PDF)
04/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration [U.S. Department of Labor] (OSHA). Published: 4/13/2020. This plan provides instructions and guidance to Area Offices and compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) for handling COVID-19-related complaints, referrals, and severe illness reports. The scope of this guidance covers all investigations and inspections specifically related to the workplace hazard of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), which is the virus causing the current COVID-19 pandemic. (Text)
04/12/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/12/2020. This report describes why, in the absence of evidence, the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination for the prevention of COVID-19. WHO continues to recommend neonatal BCG vaccination in countries or settings with a high incidence of tuberculosis. (Text)
04/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Published: 4/11/2020. This web page 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)
04/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) [National Heart Lung and Blood Institute]. Published: 4/10/2020. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) is a study of the characteristics of subclinical cardiovascular disease (disease detected non-invasively before it has produced clinical signs and symptoms) and the risk factors that predict progression to clinically overt cardiovascular disease or progression of the subclinical disease. MESA researchers study a diverse, population-based sample of 6,814 asymptomatic men and women aged 45-84. The authors propose to ascertain COVID-19 occurrence in MESA, a general population-based sample of now elderly adults. The results will provide much needed knowledge about how COVID-19 infection affects individuals with and without underlying lung and heart diseases and thereby help to inform public health strategies for COVID-19 risk mitigation as well as future therapeutic and prevention trials. (PDF)
04/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 4/10/2020. This 16-page plan, published with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), outlines a vision for how to manage COVID-19 epidemics going forward, including ways that case identification and contact tracing capabilities can be greatly expanded; actions that the federal, state, and local governments and other organizations must take to stand up these capabilities as quickly as possible; and resources that will be needed to accomplish comprehensive case finding and contact tracing. (PDF)
04/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of New Hampshire (UNH). Published: 4/10/2020. The author of this four-page report estimates the influence that the local age structure has on COVID-19 death rates among those exposed to it in rural and urban counties in the United States. He reports that the older age structure of rural America increases its vulnerability to the coronavirus. Though rural exposure to the virus was limited early in the pandemic, it is now spreading rapidly there. (PDF)
04/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT). Published: 4/8/2020. This one-hour, 18-minute webinar, part of the Medical and Public Health Considerations of COVID-19 series, discusses regulations, guidance, and hazard assessment of different kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE); and reports from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tehran, Iran, and New Orleans, Louisiana. (Video or Multimedia)
04/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Government of Canada. Published: 4/8/2020. This web page provides guidance specific to the COVID-19 pandemic in long term care homes (LTCHs). It should be read in conjunction with relevant provincial, territorial, and local legislation, regulations, and policies. (Text)
04/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Published: 4/7/2020. Whether local health departments communicate with the public using social media, press releases, newsletters, or other forms of communication, health officials can use the principles in this three-page document to raise public awareness about the health impacts of climate change. (PDF)
04/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Royal College of Physicians. Published: 4/7/2020. In response to the growing urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has developed this eight-page guidance for the difficult ethical issues that frontline staff will face while caring for their patients during the pandemic. (PDF)
04/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/6/2020. This web page, updated on April 6, 2020, provides guidance on the identification or screening of healthcare workers and inpatients with suspected COVID-19 in non-U.S. healthcare settings. Rationale, requirements, and considerations are discussed for three broad case identification strategies: passive, enhanced passive, and active. (Text)
04/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 4/6/2020. Although there are now ongoing clinical trials testing the efficacy and safety of several medicines for COVID-19, this 28-page document discusses how there is a lack of quality evidence to demonstrate chloroquine and/or hydroxychloroquine are effective in the treatment of COVID-19. (PDF)
04/04/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/4/2020. This six-page interim guidance on oxygen sources and distribution strategies for COVID-19 treatment has been adapted from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF’s technical specifications and guidance for oxygen therapy devices, which is part of the WHO medical device technical series. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Published: 4/2020. Communities depend on the functions of health departments, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This two-page document details the preparedness requirements to ensure a health department’s ability to appropriately respond during public health emergencies, and provides examples of accredited health departments in action during public health emergencies. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/1/2020. This list of priority medical devices in the context of COVID-19 provides descriptions for the management of patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when a COVID-19 virus infection is suspected at different levels of health care provision. The first level is for outpatient; second level includes general hospitals and laboratories; and third level includes specialized hospitals with intensive care units and SARI units. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American Hospital Association (AHA). Published: 4/2020. This six-page report provides an overview of links to models that can help organizations address COVID-19 case projections and capacity planning, community vulnerability mapping, and case mapping. It provides links to 11 COVID-19 models and provides an overview of each tool’s capabilities and the resource’s methodology documentation. (PDF)
03/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 3/9/2020. The purpose of this 11-page checklist tool is to help countries confirm the readiness of their pre-hospital emergency medical services to respond to COVID-19, identifying immediate and priority actions aimed at responding to the emergency in an efficient and timely manner. (PDF)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Published: 3/2020. These resources provide the State of California's recommended protocol and approaches for COVID-19 response for individuals experiencing homelessness. (Text)
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