07/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/23/2020. This web page provides COVID-19 webinar and partner calls videos from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They can be filtered by audience, including first responders, healthcare facilities, healthcare professionals, and public health professionals. (Video or Multimedia)
07/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security. Published: 7/22/2020. The main witness at this three-hour, seven-minute Congressional hearing is the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who responds to members’ questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, where we currently stand, and how the response to this public health emergency can be improved. (Video or Multimedia)
07/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 7/22/2020. In this 54-minute webinar, participants discuss different policies and processes taken at long-term care facilities caring for COVID-19-positive residents based on case-based experiences, describe mitigation strategies involved to promptly identify and isolate residents with possible COVID-19 utilizing appropriate infection prevention practices, and describe the role of local and state public health in the identification, prevention, and control of COVID-19 in long-term facilities. (Video or Multimedia)
07/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 7/21/2020. This report discusses recent trends in COVID-19 cases among residents and staff in long-term care facilities and how these relate to surges in “hotspot” states. Long-term care cases in hotspot states with wider community transmission have risen at four times the rate as long-term care cases in non-hotspot states. (Text)
07/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Published: 7/20/2020. This eight-page bulletin focuses on recipients’ compliance with the prohibitions against race, color, and national origin discrimination contained in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), with regard to federal financial assistance to state and local agencies, hospitals, and other healthcare providers on the frontlines of the COVID‐19 response. (PDF)
07/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 7/15/2020. This web page, updated on July 15, 2020, describes how to get the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel and supplies. The panel detects the SARS-CoV-2 virus in upper and lower respiratory specimens. It is designed to be used with an existing RT-PCR testing instrument commonly used to test for seasonal influenza. (Text)
07/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security. Published: 7/8/2020. This three-hour, 52-minute Congressional hearing features witnesses who are the front lines of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic: a governor, a mayor, a public health official, and an emergency manager. They discuss what needs to be done to reverse the current trend of cases to protect the country's health and economy. (Video or Multimedia)
07/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management (WRAP-EM). Published: 7/8/2020. This 11-page document contains facts and guidance on tear gas exposure and treatment, including unique considerations for the pediatric patient. It discusses the need to continue to be vigilant of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and follow regional and local guidelines for personal protection/public health recommendations. It contains two separate fact sheets for the Health Care Provider, and for the Community. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Published: 7/2020. The HHS Protect Coronavirus Data Hub provides high-quality, accessible, and timely information for entrepreneurs, researchers, and policymakers to help drive insights and better health outcomes for all. This site augments HHS open data on COVID-19 — available on Healthdata.gov and Data.gov — with non-government datasets from academia, non-profit organizations, industry, and hospital facilities reporting from all 50 states. (Text)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 7/2020. A comprehensive review of approaches to treating substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders and data on treatment facilities for veterans, combined with interviews and visits to facilities, informed a series of recommendations to help the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and other organizations expand and enhance treatment opportunities for post-9/11 veterans with co-occurring disorders. The recommendations in this four-page document address the types of treatments provided to veterans, how treatment facilities can better meet their needs, and how providers, insurers, and organizations such as WWP can help support veterans' care transitions to help prevent a recurrence of mental health symptoms or substance use relapse. (PDF)
06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Save the Children International. Published: 6/11/2020. The overall objective of this 12-page rapid need assessment was to gain insights on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Cambodian children around COVID-19. The study aimed to understand the information needs of children, their preferred and most trusted communication channels, their current household situation, their understanding of the virus, and how they are protecting themselves, as well as their top concerns and needs. (PDF)
06/05/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Global Virus Network (GVN). Published: 6/5/2020. This web page provides information and links for the Forefront of Virology COVID-19 Webinar Series, which will be updated as webinars are held. (Video or Multimedia)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 6/2020. This 14-page document describes the essential interventions in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) that should be developed on an intersectoral basis in countries and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its frame of reference is the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) intervention pyramid for MHPSS services, which shows different levels of support, ranging from social considerations, safety, and basic needs, to the provision of specialized services for the management of more severe conditions, as well as the probable volume of demand at each established level. (PDF)
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