07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 7/2020. This 13-page report summarizes the mission of the COVID-19 Incident Management Support Team in the WHO Regional Office for Europe, which deployed a team of technical experts to Tajikistan from May 1-11, 2020. The objectives of the mission were to understand the response measures currently being taken to manage the COVID-19 outbreak and provide guidance on actions needed as the outbreak evolves. (PDF)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Senate, Committee on Indian Affairs. Published: 7/1/2020. Witnesses in this three-hour Congressional hearing discuss the Indian Health Service’s efforts to respond to and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, FEMA’s response and the actions underway to protect tribal nations during the pandemic, and the working relations between five Standing Rock Sioux Tribe North Dakota Tribal Nations, Governor’s Office, and federal partners regarding the pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
07/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network (MHTTC). Published: 7/2020. This web page provides links to a webinar series and other resources that can be useful when coping with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and other widespread public health crises. (Video or Multimedia)
06/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Association of Counties (NACo). Published: 6/30/2020. This one-hour webinar outlines federal guidance and telehealth technology resources that help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes and long-term care settings, and protect the nation’s vulnerable populations. (Video or Multimedia)
06/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Congressional Research Service [Library of Congress] (CRS). Published: 6/25/2020. This 33-page report answers frequently asked questions about current efforts related to research and development of medical countermeasures, their regulation, and related policy issues. Although several efforts are underway, medical product research, development, and approval is a difficult and high-risk endeavor that takes years in typical circumstances. In response to COVID-19, this process has been expedited, including through several federal programs and mechanisms covered in this report. However, expedited medical product development can carry certain risks, such as a more limited safety profile for new products upon approval. (PDF)
06/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/24/2020. This 23-page document provides basic exercises and advice for adults who have been severely unwell and admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. It assists in self-rehabilitation and recovery management, addressing the common residual COVID-19 symptoms, specifically breathlessness, starting exercise, getting back to functional activities, mental health, and post intubation symptoms such as voice weakness, eating, drinking, and attention and memory deficits. (PDF)
06/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Published: 6/23/2020. This 16-page Congressional testimony discusses how COVID-19 is only the latest communicable disease threat to raise public health concerns regarding the spread of contagion through air travel. It provides information on the U.S. aviation system’s preparedness to respond to communicable disease threats, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s management of its R&D portfolio, including the extent to which disease transmission on aircraft and at airports has been the focus of FAA research. (PDF)
06/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/17/2020. This 11-page report summarizes a World Health Organization COVID-19 Rapid Response Team (RRT)'s mission to Italy in February-March 2020, conducted jointly with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The mission set out to better understand the situation and evolution of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, and support the immediate national response. (PDF)
06/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/17/2020. This 33-page policy brief’s key messages include that health system resilience is key to coping with catastrophic events, such as the economic crisis and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but there is much confusion about what resilience means, how to strengthen it, and how to assess it; and assessment of health system resilience is crisis- and context-specific. It is important to employ a range of both quantitative and qualitative metrics that allow evaluation of particular aspects of health system resilience in order to provide a meaningful overall assessment. (PDF)
06/11/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/11/2020. This four-page document discusses how the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain has resulted in limited provision of palliative care, and palliative care physicians and nurses have often been deployed to deliver emergency care for people with COVID-19. It describes the experiences of The Clínica, a non-profit hospital with two venues, one in northern Spain and a second one in Madrid, which is specializing in providing cancer care. (PDF)
06/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 6/3/2020. This four-page report describes how one of the most striking changes in hospital admission patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has been a decrease in the number of people presenting with coronary artery or cerebrovascular diseases. For the multidisciplinary teams working with people who developed coronary artery and cerebrovascular diseases, ensuring seamless care during the COVID-19 outbreak was unifying. (PDF)
06/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Published: 6/2020. Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 4 storm that created widespread devastation in Puerto Rico in September 2017. This webinar highlights how the National Child Traumatic Stress Network brought in culturally-adapted trauma and grief interventions to several child-serving systems and worked to ensure the sustainability of these practices to better identify and treat traumatized and bereaved children and families. (Video or Multimedia)
05/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 5/7/2020. Over 670 participants from UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, Red Cross, and international organizations took part in an IASC briefing on May 7, 2020, to discuss how the humanitarian community is working to reduce the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse and support the most vulnerable, and what humanitarians can do to better prepare and respond, including during COVID-19. (Video or Multimedia)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 5/2020. This two-page fact sheet provides information and recommendations for addressing the mental health needs of vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 response in the World Health Organization European Region. The mental health consequences of COVID-19 pandemic are already strongly apparent, ranging from stress associated with risk of infection, quarantine, or self-isolation, through to the traumatic experiences of sudden loss of lives and livelihoods within families and communities. (PDF)
04/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Network for Public Health Law. Published: 4/29/2020. State public health and other emergency declarations issued in response to COVID-19 vary in breadth and scope, but do not typically explicitly address liability protections for healthcare workers. As noted in this three-page overview, select states have issued supplementary executive orders to provide immunity. (PDF)
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