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)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/3/2020. This web page provides resources for hospitals and healthcare professionals preparing for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in these topics: Healthcare Provider Checklist; Steps Healthcare Facilities Can Take; Healthcare Facility Guidance; Hospital Preparedness Tool; Nursing Home and Long-Term Care Facility Checklist; Get Your Clinic Ready; Print Resources; and Delivery of Adult Clinical Preventive Services, Including Immunizations. (Text)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP). Published: 4/3/2020. As healthcare workers, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are working to care for their patients while preventing the spread of COVID-19. This two-page document provides some tips for protecting their families and friends, and minimizing exposure at home. (PDF)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Published: 4/3/2020. This four-page brief will help states understand how projections are calculated across several COVID-19 models, each of which has been cited by the media and used or developed by state/territorial health officials and ASTHO alumni. Although there are at least a dozen models in use across the nation, the four cited in this brief represent a sample that is designed to forecast hospital capacity at the regional or state level. (PDF)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 4/2/2020. During this one-hour, 43-minute Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Call, clinicians provide an overview of the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients, including case presentations of critically ill adults and clinical management challenges, and summarize recently published guidelines on clinical management of critically ill adults. (Video or Multimedia)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration [U.S. Department of Labor] (OSHA). Published: 4/2/2020. This memorandum provides interim guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) for enforcing the Respiratory Protection standard and certain other health standards, with regard to supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Text)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/2/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the BioGX SARS-CoV-2 Reagents for BD MAX™ System, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 2, 2020. The BioGX SARS-CoV-2 Reagents for BD MAX™ System is authorized for use on using respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/2/2020. This two-page letter authorizes the emergency use of the Northwestern Diagnostic Molecular Laboratory SARS-Cov-2 Assay, which is eligible for authorization under the March 31, 2020, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Molecular-based Laboratory Developed Tests for Detection of Nucleic Acid from SARS-CoV-2 (Molecular LDT COVID-19 Authorized Test). (PDF)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/2/2020. This one-page letter authorizes the emergency use of the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia SARS-CoV-2 PCR Test, which is eligible for authorization under the March 31, 2020, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Molecular-based Laboratory Developed Tests for Detection of Nucleic Acid from SARS-CoV-2 (Molecular LDT COVID-19 Authorized Test). (PDF)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma [Columbia University]. Published: 4/2/2020. This 53-minute webinar, part of the Reporting and COVID-19: Conversations for Journalists webinar series, discusses how COVID-19 compares to pandemics like SARS and Ebola. Although coronavirus is creating unprecedented challenges the globe over, it's not the first pandemic of this century. (Video or Multimedia)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Sphere Project. Published: 4/2/2020. This two-hour, 26-minute webinar discusses COVID-19 prevention measures critical to the work of camp managers and others working in displacement settings. It features WASH specialists, as well as experienced camp program staff who have recently been involved in setting up special measures to prevent the spread of disease and develop key messages for populations living in temporary settlements. (Video or Multimedia)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Published: 4/2/2020. This one-hour, 19-minute lecture in the Medical Grand Rounds’ COVID-19 series features palliative care experts who discuss the growing role of that discipline in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/1/2020. This three-page guidance recommends that member states provide universal access to public hand hygiene stations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and make their use obligatory on entering and leaving any public or private commercial building and any public transport facility. It is also recommended that healthcare facilities improve access to and practice of hand hygiene. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. This eight-page document is for decision-makers and policymakers tasked with rapid re-organization of the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policy brief summarizes 16 recommendations to strengthen the health system response to COVID-19 in the WHO European Region, to break chains of transmission, and to diagnose and treat cases while maintaining essential services. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. This eight-page table presents how action areas across the 16 recommendations described in the related policy brief will need to change in frequency and focus as Member States move into the community transmission stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. This six-page document focuses on maintaining continuity of essential health care services across the continuum of care while managing the COVID-19 response, including the supports and measures required to ensure that health workforce is mobilized and enabled to deliver the care required. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. The Adaptt Surge Planning Support Tool is an Excel-based graphical tool intended for policymakers and senior planners. It allows Member States to focus on surge planning information, such as the number of beds required – total, moderate, severe, and critical (including rapid response teams and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation); the dates of predicted bed shortages; and the detailed human resources needed. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. The Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool (ESFT) is an Excel-based tool to help Member States manage essential supplies. It provides specific, focused outputs, including detailed quantifications of equipment (personal protective equipment, diagnostics, biomedical equipment, drugs and consumables); inpatient beds (total, severe and critical); and tests (for mild, suspected, severe and critical cases). (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 4/1/2020. The Health Workforce Estimator (HWFE) is an Excel-driven tool that Member States can easily use to estimate the required number of each type of health worker based on the target number of mild, moderate, severe, and critical patients per day. It also provides an analysis of the throughput of mild, moderate, severe, and critical patients in multiple facilities, and highlights workforce gaps for each type of health worker. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). Published: 4/2020. This web page provides maps, datasets, applications, and other resources for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It links to several COVID-19 dashboards and apps, and details five steps to understand the potential impact COVID-19 can have on an organization and community. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Urgent Care Association (UCA). Published: 4/1/2020. This 50-minute webinar features Strategic Business Executives with Abbott Labs who discuss the Abbott ID NOW™ COVID-19 test that brings rapid testing to the front lines, and the process of molecular diagnostics. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University. Published: 4/1/2020. This 57-minute webinar, part of the COVID-19 and Humanitarian Settings series, presents a range of guiding principles for protecting the most vulnerable from COVID-19 infection in a safe and dignified manner until COVID-19 can be controlled or a vaccine/treatment options become available. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 4/2020. In this 49-page report, the authors present a list of strategies for creating critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and estimate the number of patients accommodated, given the number of available critical care doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, ventilators, and hospital beds. They also document the development of a user-friendly, Microsoft Excel–based tool that allows decision-makers at all levels — hospitals, health care systems, states, regions — to estimate current critical care capacity and rapidly explore strategies for increasing it. (PDF)
03/31/2020 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: 3/31/2020. This two-page document provides guidance on how to prepare now and take actions, such as those listed, to help healthcare facilities protect their workers’ psychological health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
03/31/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Urgent Care Association (UCA). Published: 3/31/2020. This one-hour webinar features a conversation with urgent care operators on the role of urgent care medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what best practices can look like. They discuss what is happening in the industry as a whole, as well as what is happening at the clinic level. (Video or Multimedia)
03/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 3/30/2020. Before caring for patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, healthcare personnel must receive comprehensive training on when and what PPE is necessary, how to don (put on) and doff (take off) PPE, limitations of PPE, and proper care, maintenance, and disposal of PPE. This two-page document provides guidance on how to put on and take off PPE. (PDF)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). Published: 3/26/2020. Knowing that the current U.S. hospital bed capacity will likely fall short of the need during the COVID-19 pandemic, this report discusses the need to identify alternatives that can help offload the bed demand from hospitals, and if hotels could be used for COVID-19 patient care and sequestration. (Text)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Published: 3/26/2020. This one-hour, 28-minute lecture in the Medical Grand Rounds’ COVID-19 series focuses on respiratory failure in COVID-19, including Aberrant Immune Responses to Respiratory Viral Infection: Lessons from Influenza; and Experimental Therapies. (Video or Multimedia)
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