04/22/2020 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: 4/22/2020. This collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides a curated set of resources and tools for decision-makers managing healthcare workforce challenges in response to the COVID-19 emergency. (Text)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/22/2020. This web page highlights basic principles of contact tracing to stop COVID-19 transmission. Communities must scale up and train a large contact tracer workforce and work collaboratively across public and private agencies to stop the transmission of COVID-19. (Text)
04/21/2020 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: 4/21/2020. This 240-page toolkit, updated on April 21, 2020, was developed to help state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) entities to address potential shortages in medical facilities during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. It is intended to provide technical assistance to SLTT entities in establishing and operationalizing alternate care sites (ACS). (PDF)
04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (AHRQ). Published: 4/21/2020. This Patient Safety Network web page provides guidance about the safety of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, and discusses Background; Patient Safety Problems; COVID-19 Tools and Resources for Nursing Homes; and Professional Organization Resources. (Text)
04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Published: 4/21/2020. This one-hour webinar, jointly presented by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the New England Journal of Medicine, is a conversation with leaders in public health on COVID-19 and the next collective steps. From securing crucial supplies, to hopes for treatments and vaccines, to “reopening” society, experts explore how best to proceed. (Video or Multimedia)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/20/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare personnel of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of decontaminated, compatible N95 respirators. These compatible N95 respirators have been decontaminated using the Sterilucent HC 80TT Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) Sterilizer. Decontaminated N95 respirators that have been decontaminated using the Sterilucent Sterilization System are authorized for single-user reuse by healthcare personnel in a healthcare setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/20/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the PhoenixDx® 2019-CoV, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 20, 2020. The PhoenixDx® 2019-CoV is authorized for use on respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 4/20/2020. This two-page COVID-19 Pandemic Response Fact Sheet details why all alternative care site (ACS) options need to be considered for increasing healthcare capacity and capability during this pandemic, and provides a table that is a Quick Reference to Understand ACS and Federal Medical Stations(FMS). (PDF)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Harvard University. Published: 4/20/2020. This web page from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University provides materials from the COVID-19 Response Initiative, including a Pandemic Resilience Roadmap, white papers, and COVID-19 resources from friends and colleagues. (Text)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/20/2020. This web page offers guidance for the use of reusable elastomeric particulate respirators to provide respiratory protection to healthcare practitioners (HCP) against pathogens as a component of a formally developed and implemented written respiratory protection program. It is based on what is currently known about the transmission and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (Text)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM). Published: 4/20/2020. Many diagnostic tests for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are available so far, with more gaining emergency approval every day. This report analyzes these tests, which are largely based on four different techniques that are detailed. (Text)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Medical Reserve Corps [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (MRC (ASPR)). Published: 4/17/2020. In this eight-minute presentation, Dr. Denis FitzGerald of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response discusses the key characteristics of an alternate care site (ACS), the relationship between an ACS and a federal medical station (FMS), the ACS Toolkit, and ACS strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
04/17/2020 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: 4/17/2020. This nine-minute video from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides several quick stress management exercises for healthcare workers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/15/2020. This three-page guidance document highlights public health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic for social and religious practices and gatherings during Ramadan that can be applied across different national contexts. (PDF)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/15/2020. The technical specifications in this 10-page document describe the minimum requirements that invasive and non-invasive ventilators must comply with to ensure quality, safety, and effectiveness when used for the management of COVID-19. (PDF)
04/14/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of New Mexico (UNM). Published: 4/14/2020. This web page provides links to webinars about the COVID-19 pandemic, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC), and Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico. Slides and recordings are available for all webinars. (Video or Multimedia)
04/08/2020 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: 4/8/2020. This two-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) lists guidance and resources for in-patient and out-patient programs and facilities providing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources are available to provide continuity of care and to help mitigate the potential surge of patients seeking in-hospital treatment. (PDF)
04/06/2020 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: 4/6/2020. Given all the ways that COVID-19 is affecting how medical care is provided, it is important to talk to everyone—in or out of hospital settings—about advance directives. This two-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides information about advance directives and conversations about them. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 4/2020. This 54-page report captures the discussions from a 2019 workshop reviewing the successes and gaps over the last 10 years of crisis standards of care work, in order to inform the next phases of planning and implementation. Workshop topics included how crisis standards of care have been incorporated into planning and implemented at the local, state, and federal levels. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Published: 4/2020. Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, this 80-page report found that California’s statewide shelter-in-place order reduced COVID-19 cases by 144,793 to 232,828 and COVID-19 deaths by 1,836 to 4,969 during the first three weeks following its enactment. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Published: 4/2020. Understanding the time path of the COVID-19 pandemic has been hampered by the absence of bounds on infection rates that are credible and informative. This 26-page paper explains the logical problem of bounding these rates and reports illustrative findings, using data from Illinois, New York, and Italy. It combines the data with assumptions on the infection rate in the untested population and on the accuracy of the tests that appear credible in the current context. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Published: 4/2020. This 21-page study tests the hypothesis that New York City’s multi-tentacled subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive COVID-19 epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020. (PDF)
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