04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/23/2020. This web page provides information about COVID-19 cases, data, and surveillance; a weekly surveillance summary; forecasts; and data visualization. (Text)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 4/23/2020. This 50-page report provides the European Commission and Member States with a set of public health objectives and considerations for COVID-19 epidemiological criteria, indicators, and accompanying measures, supporting the implementation of this roadmap based on the available scientific evidence. Since December 31, 2019, and as of April 22, 2020, 988,241 COVID-19 cases were reported by European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and the United Kingdom (UK), including 105,064 deaths. (PDF)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/23/2020. This web page provides clinical care guidance for healthcare professionals about COVID-19, including for home care, ending home isolation, and by patient type. (Text)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/23/2020. This web page provides COVID-19 preparedness information and guidance by facility type: Alternate Care Sites; Ambulatory Care Settings; Assisted Living Facilities; Blood and Plasma Facilities; Dental Settings; Dialysis Facilities; Hospitals; Nursing Homes and Long Term-Care Facilities; and Pharmacies. (Text)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 4/22/2020. This brief analyzes variation in hospital bed capacity by region in the U.S. and by metro/non-metro status, and examines metro and non-metro differences in the share of the population that is at increased risk of COVID-19 due to age or health status. Non-metro areas are largely rural, and, even prior to the pandemic, face different challenges in health system capacity, including further travel times for patients and provider shortages. (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 discusses the effects of COVID-19 on the health of racial and ethnic minority groups, including factors that influence racial and ethnic minority group health, and what can be done by governments, public health officials, healthcare providers, community organizations, and individuals. (Text)
04/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [National Institutes of Health] (NIAID). Published: 4/22/2020. This 12-page document details the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)'s plan for accelerating research to diagnose, prevent, and treat COVID-19. It builds on current trans-NIAID efforts to better understand SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis, transmission, and mechanisms of protective immunity by expanding resources and activities that support rapid development of biomedical tools to more effectively combat the COVID-19 disease and pandemic. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/16/2020. This web page provides guidance on risk and patient management for patients on home dialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facilities should ensure that home dialysis patients have all the supplies they need to continue their dialysis treatments and should work with suppliers to understand if shortages are anticipated in items such as peritoneal dialysis fluid. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Published: 4/2020. This web page provides the titles, authors, and links for working papers written about the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and other policy responses, and the 1918 Spanish Flu and other pandemics. (Text)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Published: 4/2020. This brief measure includes exposure, mental health impact, and growth related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers also provide a brief measure with scoring which includes annotations for creating the subscale scores of exposure, mental health impact, and growth. The measure was adapted from MacLean & Cloitre, 2020; CRISIS V0.2; and Taku, Cann, Calhoun & Tedeschi, 2008. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/2020. This module has been prepared to help summarize the World Health Organization guidelines on hand hygiene, associated tools, and ideas for effective implementation. Participants will learn to describe hand hygiene as a critical component of infection prevention and control; identify the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene; discuss glove use and hand hygiene during patient care activities; and discuss key issues and considerations of hand hygiene in a healthcare facility. (Video or Multimedia)
03/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: American Society of Nephrology (ASN). Published: 3/21/2020. This five-page document provides general recommendations regarding in-hospital renal replacement therapy (RRT) for patients with COVID-19, and acute kidney injury (AKI) or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Renal replacement therapy should continue to be delivered in a safe and timely manner, while minimizing exposure to the staff, per the expertise of the individual institution. (PDF)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: American Society of Nephrology (ASN). Published: 3/2020. This web page provides links to recordings, presentation slides, and speakers' bios for webinars about the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from March 11, 2020. (Text)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 3/2020. This web page provides COVID-19 fact sheets and guidance documents from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It is continually updated. (Text)
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