04/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/19/2020. This review assesses the effects of prior and current use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in patients with acute viral respiratory infections, such as COVID-19, on acute severe adverse events (including mortality, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute organ failure, and opportunistic infections), on acute health care utilization (including hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, supplemental oxygen therapy, and mechanical ventilation), as well as on quality of life and long-term survival. (Text)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/17/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter device for the reduction of pathogens and inflammatory mediators. The Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter device was authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration on April 17, 2020, to treat patients 18 years of age or older with confirmed COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with confirmed or imminent respiratory failure. (PDF)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Published: 4/17/2020. The Board on Higher Education of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a series of conversations on the COVID-19 pandemic to bring together academic, industry, government, and civic leaders across the country to understand the varied facets of what has happened so far, what is currently happening, and what is expected to happen in the weeks and months ahead. (Video or Multimedia)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/17/2020. This six-page document offers guidance to Member States and partners for the inclusion of refugees and migrants in non-camp settings, as part of holistic efforts to respond to COVID-19 epidemics in the general populations, and aims to contribute to the global public health efforts to prevent COVID-19. (PDF)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 4/17/2020. During this one-hour, 33-minute Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Call, presenters discuss the current impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the U.S., including key successes and challenges from the hospital response perspective. (Video or Multimedia)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Published: 4/17/2020. This two-page document on COVID-19 considerations for people living with HIV is intended as a resource for clinicians and public health officials. The information is based on best practices in areas that have been heavily impacted by COVID-19 and will be updated as new information and data become available. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/16/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Curative-Korva SARS-Cov-2 Assay, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 16, 2020. The Curative-Korva SARS-Cov-2 Assay is authorized for use on using respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/16/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the GSTM COVID-19 RT-PCR KIT, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 16, 2020. The GSTM COVID-19 RT-PCR KIT is authorized for use on using respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Published: 4/16/2020. In this 30-minute Facebook Live Q&A, Paul Biddinger, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine and Chief of the Division of Emergency Preparedness, gives a firsthand account of what it’s like to be on the hospital frontlines to COVID-19 as deaths surge, and discusses the challenges facing medical responders during this unprecedented time. (Video or Multimedia)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH). Published: 4/15/2020. This is Part 2 of a webinar series about outreach to agricultural workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers discuss developing relationships in agricultural industry to enhance education, communication, and increase access to care. (Video or Multimedia)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Published: 4/15/2020. This infographic provides access to COVID-19 cases data in the United States by county and is updated daily. (Text)
04/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/14/2020. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed these recommendations, updated on April 14, 2020, for homeless service providers about how to protect their staff, clients, and guests during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) outbreak. The Before, During, and After sections of this guidance offer suggested strategies to help homeless service providers plan, prepare, and respond to this emerging public health threat. (Text)
Administrative Preparedness: Strategies for Managing and Streamlining COVID-19 Response and Recovery
04/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Published: 4/14/2020. This three-page brief provides leaders with considerations to support their administrative response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including examples of state policy actions that facilitate efficient pandemic response and recovery efforts. (PDF)
04/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Published: 4/10/2020. This resource details the federal government’s data needs regarding the public health COVID-19 response, explains the division of reporting responsibility between hospitals and states, and provides clear, flexible options for the timely delivery of this critical information. The objective is to allow states and hospitals either to leverage existing data reporting capabilities or, where those capabilities are insufficient, to provide guidance in how to build upon existing capabilities. (Text)
04/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH). Published: 4/8/2020. The focus of this webinar is on outreach strategies targeting agricultural workers. Speakers provide information about how they have conducted outreach to agricultural workers in the past and share how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their service delivery now. (Video or Multimedia)
04/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD). Published: 4/7/2020. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, health departments and community-based syringe services programs (SSPs) have requested recommendations for supporting syringe access and, in turn, people who use drugs. This two-page resource consolidates many of these recommendations and includes promising strategies and important considerations for health departments working with SSPs that were raised during a March 2020 call with health department and community partners to discuss COVID-19 response. (PDF)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/3/2020. This guidance applies to all pharmacy staff to minimize their risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus and reduce the risk for customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics are Advice for sick staff; Filling prescriptions; Strategies to minimize close contact; and COVID-19 testing and other close-contact services. (Text)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] (CDC NIOSH). Published: 4/2/2020. This web page describes expedient isolation rooms, and provides instructions for establishing expedient patient isolation rooms for surge airborne isolation capacity within a traditional healthcare environment. (Text)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] (CDC NIOSH). Published: 4/2/2020. This web page provides epidemic or pandemic response information about Advantages of the Ventilated Headboard; How the Ventilated Headboard Works; Various Uses for the Ventilated Headboard; Availability; Do-It-Yourself Instructions; and Multi-cot Variations. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Published: 4/2020. The Coronavirus Impact Scale was developed by Joan Kaufman and Joel Stoddard. It asks 12 questions, and is used to rate how COVID-19 has changed a person's life. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Published: 4/2020. The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Aged Children (KSADS) is a widely used and well validated diagnostic interview for children and adolescents. The PTSD trauma screen items from the KSADS-COMP have been revised to capture COVID-19-specific traumas. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Pennington Biomedical Research Center [Louisiana State University] (PBRC). Published: 4/2020. Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana are conducting this research study to understand how COVID-19 is impacting health behaviors of people in the United States and around the world. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/2020. This 10-page guidance has been issued to provide a policy to help expand the availability of telethermographic systems used for body temperature measurements for triage use for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 4/2020. If different regions face pandemic peaks at different points in time, supply shortfalls in regions suffering high infection caseloads (hot spots) can potentially be reduced by minimizing idle inventory and acquisitions of new supplies in regions with contemporaneously low infection caseloads (cool spots). This 16-page report discusses a potential backstopping mechanism for addressing that inefficient distribution. It also offers observations on how to evaluate whether the proposed mechanism could provide benefits over alternative responses in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 4/2020. As governments rush to respond to COVID-19, there is an urgent need to ensure that the measures they take are sensitive to the needs of their poorest and most vulnerable people. This 17-page brief outlines countries, sub-national areas, and populations in or near poverty that need to be explicitly prioritized in the response to the coronavirus. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Trust for America's Health. Published: 4/2020. This year’s 36-page annual analysis of the nation’s investment in public health concludes that the nation’s public health system is seriously underfunded, and this lack of investment puts Americans’ lives at risk. Furthermore, the impact of this underinvestment gets worse each year as the range and severity of health security threats continue to grow. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates this reality in the starkest of terms. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC). Published: 4/2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for fire and EMS agencies, from personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages to questions of firefighter quarantine. In this 55-minute webinar, speakers discuss some of the most common legal issues arising out of the COVID-19 crisis. It is presented in partnership with Lexipol. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Published: 4/2020. This two-page tip sheet provides several key takeaways, based on NFPA 1581 and guidance for EMS providers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to offer crucial, timely guidance on infection control to help keep responders—and everyone they support—safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Resolve to Save Lives. Published: 4/2020. Based on shared knowledge and drawing on experiences in the U.S. and globally, this 30-page document details the next step in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. After flattening the curve, the next step is to box the virus in by implementing four essential actions, detailed here. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Boston Children's Hospital, OPENPediatrics. Published: 4/2020. This ventilator simulator is an immersive online mechanical ventilation training tool. It incorporates the most recent evidence-based guidelines in pediatric and adult ventilation, as well as COVID-19 information and COVID-19 patient cases. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Published: 4/2020. This toolkit provides COVID-19 resources in 12 categories that include Communication Scripts and Conversation Videos; Symptom Management Protocols; Palliative Care Team Tools; Using Telehealth; Resilience; and Role of Palliative Care. (Text)
03/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations (UN). Published: 3/27/2020. The COVID-19 disease outbreak comes with unpredictable primary and secondary impacts on vulnerable and food insecure populations across the world. This seven-page document from the World Food Programme responds to key questions to be answered to inform targeting and prioritization in COVID-affected populations. It includes preliminary data around COVID-19 and guidance aimed at the provision of food and nutrition. (PDF)
03/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Published: 3/27/2020. This 19-page Ethical Framework is offered as a tool to assist programs and professionals in having critical conversations about care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even when regulations are provided, all decision-making is best served when grounded in and structured by the ethics and values healthcare providers are bound to uphold. (PDF)
03/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). Published: 3/19/2020. This two-page document provides questions for individuals to answer about COVID-19, and based on their risk level, to determine where they would like to be treated. (PDF)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: University of Houston Law Center. Published: 2020. The purpose of this 120-page bench book is to serve as a guide for judges who evaluate public health control measures and public health authorities who implement such control measures, such as quarantine and isolation, particularly during a public health emergency. While laws regarding quarantine and isolation of individuals, property, and carriers are included in this book, a massive disaster would likely require use of the provisions of the Texas Disaster Act and those on area quarantine. (PDF)
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