04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/22/2020. This Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) webinar provides a brief overview of psychological first aid (PFA) and connects viewers with both online and in-person training resources. It discusses how PFA differs from Mental Health First Aid. (Video or Multimedia)
04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/21/2020. This four-page document brings to attention key health and human rights considerations with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the importance of integrating a human rights-based approach in response to COVID-19. It provides key considerations in relation to addressing stigma and discrimination; prevention of violence against women; support for vulnerable populations; quarantine and restrictive measures; and shortages of supplies and equipment. (PDF)
04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH). Published: 4/21/2020. A panel of U.S. physicians, statisticians, and other experts has developed these treatment guidelines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The guidelines consider two broad categories of therapies currently in use by healthcare providers for COVID-19: antivirals, which may target the coronavirus directly, and host modifiers and immune-based therapies, which may influence the immune response to the virus or target the virus. The guidelines provide background information about each agent—such as clinical data about its use, ongoing clinical trials, and known interactions with other drugs—that forms the basis for the recommendation. (Text)
04/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/21/2020. COVID19Surge is a spreadsheet-based tool that hospital administrators and public health officials can use to estimate the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the COVID-19 pandemic. A user of COVID19Surge can produce estimates of the number of COVID-19 patients that need to be hospitalized, the number requiring ICU care, and the number requiring ventilator support. (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, updated on April 20, 2020, provides frequently asked questions about COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) testing at laboratories. Topics are For All Laboratories: Accessing Laboratory Testing; For All Laboratories: Data and Reporting; For All Laboratories: Test Developers; For All Laboratories: Serology; For Public Health Laboratories: Ordering Supplies; and For Clinical Laboratories: Ordering Supplies. (Text)
04/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/20/2020. This five-page policy brief answers a number of questions about the ethics of setting priorities for the allocation of resources during times of scarcity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such decisions may include access to hospitals, ventilators, vaccines, and medicines. The document provides a high-level ethical framework that can be used to guide decision-making, and complements WHO’s technical guidance. (PDF)
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 provides specific operational considerations that healthcare settings and healthcare authorities can review in the context of global supply shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), to help with decision-making in order to provide needed surge capacity during the COVID-19 response. (Text)
04/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Published: 4/19/2020. For health care that cannot be accomplished virtually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommendations in this three-page document —the first in a series of recommendations — may guide healthcare systems and facilities as they consider resuming in-person care of non-COVID-19 patients in regions with low incidence of COVID-19 disease. (PDF)
04/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Published: 4/19/2020. This three-page memorandum summarizes new requirements that will be put in place soon to ensure appropriate tracking, response, and mitigation of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reinforcing an existing requirement that nursing homes must report communicable diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and potential outbreaks to state and local health departments. (PDF)
04/19/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/19/2020. This web page describes considerations for the use of powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide respiratory protection to healthcare practitioners (HCP) as a component of a formally developed and implemented written respiratory protection program. It addresses conventional, contingency, and crisis surge PAPR use and maintenance practices. (Text)
04/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/18/2020. This six-page document details how the emergency use of face masks by the general public and healthcare workers, in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, as personal protective equipment to help prevent spread of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic meets the criteria for issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization. (PDF)
04/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/18/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the GeneFinder COVID-19 Plus RealAmp Kit, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 19, 2020. The GeneFinder COVID-19 Plus RealAmp Kit is authorized for use on respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/18/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/18/2020. To help prepare homeless service providers to prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19, providers should review Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance specific to homeless service providers and people experiencing homelessness. These considerations are for public health response to cases at homeless service provider sites, which is not outlined in the other guidance documents. (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 Fosun COVID-19 RT-PCR Detection Kit, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 17, 2020. The Fosun COVID-19 RT-PCR Detection Kit is authorized for use on respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/17/2020. This web page provides information about how firefighters and EMS providers can protect themselves from COVID-19 when providing medical treatment and transport of ill patients, and what steps employers of firefighter and EMS personnel should take. (Text)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 4/17/2020. This 24-page document provides an assessment of the risk of COVID-19 mission in a variety of organizations and settings that have been closed during the period in which physical distancing and mitigation measures have been put in place. It outlines steps to reduce potential transmission during the reopening of these organizations and settings, building on the proposed phased approach from the National Coronavirus Response: A Road Map to Reopening. (PDF)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 4/17/2020. This 40-page report presents the J-IDEA pandemic planner, a hospital planning tool to calculate how much capacity in terms of beds, staff, and ventilators is obtained by implementing healthcare provision interventions affecting the management of patient care in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows how to assess baseline capacity, and then calculate how much capacity is gained by various healthcare interventions using impact estimates that are generated as part of this study. (PDF)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/17/2020. Presenters in this one-hour, two-minute webinar discuss the what, how, and why of masks for healthcare workers caring for patients during the COVID-19 outbreak. (Video or Multimedia)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Published: 4/16/2020. This six-page document recommends key points when addressing the contact tracing gaps within local health departments and the public health system as a whole. Mitigation efforts for the COVID-19 response require tracers to connect with known patients to identify and alert their contacts of possible exposure. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Published: 4/16/2020. This three-page document focuses on the healthcare system and public health issues that must be addressed before any COVID-19 social distancing policies can be eased. There are additional important elements to be considered, including guidance on resuming activities safely for educational systems and the business sector. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Commonwealth Fund. Published: 4/16/2020. This report assesses the availability of certain critical health care resources — physician supply, hospital bed capacity, and ventilator supply — as state leaders plan their responses to a potential surge of COVID-19 cases. It also includes updated estimates of higher-risk populations based on current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (Text)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/16/2020. This 57-minute webinar discusses an approach to care for pregnant COVID-19 patients and those under investigation for labor and delivery, pregnancy, and childbirth. (Video or Multimedia)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/15/2020. This web page provides answers to 13 questions about violence against women during COVID-19. Topics include: How does COVID-19 increase risks of violence for women?; Home is not a safe place for me - what can I do?; and I am a healthcare worker/policymaker - what can I do to prevent and address violence against women during COVID-19?. (Text)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 4/15/2020. This 14-page document provides a template of standard operating procedures for research ethics committees to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the rapid review of human subjects research related to COVID-19. This publication supplements PAHO's guidance and strategies to streamline the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research with human subjects; see Disaster Lit record at https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/15/2020. This training module enables hospitals to report daily counts of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses, and current use and availability of hospital beds and mechanical ventilators, as well as both healthcare worker staffing and supply status and availability. It is divided into three components: Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity Pathway; Healthcare Worker Staffing Pathway; and Healthcare Supply Pathway. The web page provides training and data collection forms and instructions for the three components. (Text)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 4/15/2020. This letter to emergency managers shares some lessons learned in the first 30 days of FEMA's response to the COVID-19 pandemic that will shape FEMA's approach moving forward. (Text)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT). Published: 4/15/2020. This one-hour, 21-minute webinar, part of the COVID-19 webinar series, features speakers from the front lines who discuss personal protective equipment in addiction treatment settings; toxicological exposure data, trends, and public health response of poison centers with COVID-19 hotlines; and updates from the front lines in Newark, New Jersey, and London. (Video or Multimedia)
04/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 4/13/2020. This fact sheet provides information about the International Reagent Resource (IRR), which provides resources for surveillance of and detection of influenza and other respiratory pathogens to laboratories with documented training and competency. The coronavirus (COVID-19) Federal Interagency Task Force continues to expand items supplied by the IRR to help public health labs access diagnostics supplies and reagents for COVID-19 testing free of charge. (Text)
04/13/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/13/2020. Emory Healthcare has rapidly increased telemedicine on the outpatient and inpatient sides in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This 57-minute webinar provides information about the approach before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and possible post COVID-19 scenarios. (Video or Multimedia)
04/12/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/12/2020. This four-page guidance aids recipients in meeting the requirements to develop a COVID-19 community intervention implementation plan consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on prevention, management, and recovery from COVID-19 that describes how the jurisdictions will achieve mitigation goals, and to provide a summary of the community intervention implementation plan in Grant Solutions within 60 days of the Notice of Award. (PDF)
04/10/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/10/2020. This one-hour webinar provides tips and best practices for caring for pediatric patients with COVID-19. Topics include National and Atlanta Experience; Critical Care Patient Zero; and Nursing and Operations Perspective. (Video or Multimedia)
04/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/9/2020. The World Health Organization has listed this Abbott Real Time SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test for emergency use during the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in this 12-page document. The move should help increase access to quality-assured, accurate tests for the disease. It also means that the tests can now be supplied by the United Nations and other procurement agencies supporting the COVID-19 response. (PDF)
04/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: African Union Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Published: 4/9/2020. This 16-page document provides recommendations for contact tracing, which may help limit COVID-19 transmission when the first cases are identified within a country but can be very resource-intensive. It is likely not to be feasible when community transmission is occurring, and cases outside known transmission chains increase greatly. (PDF)
04/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 4/9/2020. The aim of this 13-page Technical Note is to support child protection practitioners and government officials in their immediate response to the child protection concerns faced by children who are at risk of separation or in alternative care during COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed by Better Care Network, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and UNICEF. (PDF)
04/09/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University Hospitals. Published: 4/9/2020. The Pediatric Exit Care Instructions (COVID-19) tip sheets from University Hospitals' Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital can help caregivers oversee the physical and psychosocial recovery processes for children diagnosed with COVID-19. The resources can be downloaded and customized by individual healthcare providers/facilities. (Text)
04/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/8/2020. This 55-minute webinar discusses requirements and engineering considerations when transforming a normal/positive room into a negative air room to provide care for COVID-19 patients. Topics include Types of Spaces Needed to Provide the Continuum of Care; Bellevue Hospital COVID-19 Facility/Engineering Response; and Conversions at Nebraska Medicine. (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 three-page Technical Assistance response document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) includes guidance resources related to COVID-19 for homeless shelters. It also provides information on states that have opened designated shelters for people experiencing homelessness who have tested positive for COVID-19. (PDF)
04/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/7/2020. This one-hour course is designed to assist clinical and public health laboratory professionals with applying risk management strategies to identify hazards, assess risks, and select appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) options. Participants will learn to identify PPE options, limitations, and considerations for selecting appropriate PPE. (Video or Multimedia)
04/07/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: New York University (NYU). Published: 4/7/2020. This survey assesses the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the feelings and experiences of pregnant women and new moms. (Text)
04/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/6/2020. This guidance, updated April 13, 2020, is provided to assist healthcare facilities in mitigating healthcare personnel staffing shortages that might occur because of COVID-19, and details contingency capacity strategies to mitigate staffing shortages. (Text)
04/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/6/2020. This webinar provides tips on teaching resiliency among healthcare workers, risk factors, how to overcome and develop a peer support plan, a resiliency road map, and overall strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses challenges for healthcare workers in a pandemic, and risk factors for psychological distress. (Video or Multimedia)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 4/3/2020. This 53-minute webinar provides information about 1135 Waivers -- what they are, the flexibility they provide, the waiver requirements, and their implications during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
04/02/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Published: 4/2/2020. This eight-page regional technical guidance note was developed for the UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office and Asia-Pacific Country Offices to provide guidance on older persons, health workers, and caregivers in the context of COVID-19 to effectively support each member state and work with other partners in preparing for and responding to the COVID-19 epidemic. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Center for Economic and Social Research [University of Southern California Dornsife] (CESR). Published: 4/1/2020. This 19-page panel survey asks respondents about the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on their lives. This survey is currently in the field. It contains questions (among others) on Consumer Behavior, Diet Lifestyle, Education, Employment Labor Market, Family, Health, Health Insurance, Housing, Income, Social Networks, and Subjective Well-Being. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University. Published: 4/2020. This open-access, web-based platform is for use by humanitarian actors in preparedness and response to COVID-19. Many evolving COVID-19 guidance and tools exist for humanitarian settings; humanitarians in the field are creating new programs and adapting existing programs, to continue life-saving services in the safest manner possible while trying to reduce COVID-19 transmission. This platform promotes the exchange of field-based COVID-19 program adaptations and innovations, facilitating learning among organizations in different sectors and contexts. The site is managed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Geneva Centre of Education and Research in Humanitarian Action. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Published: 4/2020. This 10-page operational guidance for the South and South-East Asia and Pacific regions has been prepared to help countries prepare a continuity plan for maintaining good quality and equitable sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed by the United Nations Population Fund, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, and UNICEF. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Published: 4/2020. As this 19-page Technical Brief notes, studies to date do not show an increased risk of severe disease in late pregnancy or substantial risk to the newborn from COVID-19. But the virus' impact on acute care services in settings with under-resourced health systems is likely to be substantial. The brief provides guidance on continuing to deliver a high level of antenatal care. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Health Care for the Homeless Council (HCH). Published: 4/2020. This three-page issue brief outlines the critical actions that public health authorities and emergency response systems must take to protect homeless populations from COVID-19, as well as some strategies being implemented and the federal guidance that is currently available to assist the effort. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Health Care for the Homeless Council (HCH). Published: 4/2020. This four-page issue brief is intended to provide local government officials and COVID-19 alternate care site program managers with a framework for serving individuals with substance use disorders in isolation and quarantine, and reducing possible harmful consequences. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Miami (UM). Published: 4/2020. The Pandemic Stress Index is a three-item measure of behavior changes and stress that individuals may have experienced during COVID-19 (coronavirus). The items presented are a "core" set of items that are recommended; however, additional population-specific items may be added depending on study/clinical needs. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Miami (UM). Published: 4/2020. The COVID-19 Cannabis Health Questionnaire (CCHQ) is a 25-item measure to assess cannabis use patterns, health risk behavior, and physical and mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical and recreational cannabis users. The COVID-19 Cannabis Health Questionnaire (CCHQ) was developed from a multidisciplinary team: cannabis epidemiologist (Vidot) chronic disease epidemiologist (Messiah) and expert in psychometrics (Gattamorta). The purpose of the CCHQ is to assess cannabis access and use patterns, health risk behavior, and the physical/mental health impact of COVID-19 on medical and recreational cannabis users amid the ongoing pandemic. The CCHQ was created based on qualitative data and piloted in four states in the United States and Kingston, Jamaica. It currently being administered globally to collect epidemiologic data on the impact of COVID-19 on mental and physical health among adults that do and do not endorse cannabis use. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Miami (UM). Published: 4/2020. The COVID-19 Household Environment Scale (CHES) providers a tool for measuring important dimensions of family functioning, conflict, and cohesion. The CHES consists of 15 items for each of two subscales, Household Conflict and Household Cohesion, with a five-point rating scale. The CHES also has items to describe respondent demographics, household composition, and household-level COVID-19 exposure severity. (Text)
03/31/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 3/31/2020. This fact sheet provides answers to 13 frequently asked questions about non-congregate sheltering during the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)' declaration of a Public Health Emergency for COVID-19. (Text)
03/31/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 3/31/2020. This fact sheet provides additional guidance related to the eligibility of emergency medical care activities as an emergency protective measure under the Emergency Declaration and any Major Disaster Declaration authorizing Public Assistance (PA) for COVID-19. (Text)
03/27/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 3/27/2020. This one-hour, two-minute webinar discusses extended use, reuse, and innovative decontamination strategies for COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE), and the N95 filtering facepiece respirators ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) process for decontamination and reuse. (Video or Multimedia)
03/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Published: 3/23/2020. This 15-page guidance applies to the management of bodies or human remains of persons believed/confirmed to have died because of COVID-19. It is meant to provide a practical overview of key recommendations for the management of infectious dead bodies and human remains. (PDF)
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