05/26/2020 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: 5/26/2020. This Topic Collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) highlights webinars and other resources sharing promising practices from the field related to COVID-19 workforce capacity and addressing workforce issues. (Text)
05/25/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/25/2020. According to this three-page report, for 2018, European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported 13 travel-related cases of yellow fever. This was the highest number of yellow fever cases ever reported in the EU/EEA in one year. (PDF)
05/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). Published: 5/23/2020. This nine-page document, updated on May 23, 2020, is an Interim Framework for PPE that promotes the general welfare, health, and safety; employee health and safety; and effective client and patient care and services during the COVID-19 pandemic, given current PPE shortages. (PDF)
05/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/22/2020. This 55-page framework aims to assess performance and provide recorded information to support analysis of progress against the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) and the related SPRP Strategy Update. The main objective is to establish and maintain a set of global and country indicators to support strategic thinking, operational tracking, and real-time evidence-based decision‑making, and to ensure advocacy and transparency between donors, UN agencies, and partners involved in the response. (PDF)
05/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/22/2020. This 33-page document provides a practical guide that may be used by national authorities to develop and update their COVID‑19 national plans across the major pillars of COVID‑19 preparedness and response. It includes new recommendations for action aligned with recent technical guidance, including maintaining essential health services and systems during the outbreak, and special considerations for community transmission in low-capacity and humanitarian settings. (PDF)
05/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/22/2020. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this eight-page document outlines a common framework for decision-making for the conduct of preventive and outbreak response campaigns; offers principles to consider when deliberating the implementation of mass vaccination campaigns for prevention of increased risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and high impact diseases (VPD/HID) among susceptible populations; and details the risks and benefits of conducting vaccination campaigns to respond to VPD/HID outbreaks. (PDF)
05/22/2020 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: 5/22/2020. This two-page tip sheet from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) can help healthcare system planners prepare to mitigate the potential healthcare delivery impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated community mitigation effort. (PDF)
05/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Published: 5/22/2020. This web page provides an algorithm for evaluation of possible multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, talking points, information about related COVID-19 pathways, and references. (Text)
05/21/2020 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: 5/21/2020. This one-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) is a tool for hospitals and other facilities to assist in streamlining staff acquisition and the onboarding process in times of need, provides a checklist that follows utilizes a three-phase approach, and includes links to helpful related online resources. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/20/2020. This seven-page guidance advises countries how to reduce the spread of COVID-19 resulting from travel, transportation, and trade on and around ground crossings. It is divided into sections on identification of priority ground crossings, and key preparedness activities for those crossings and nearby communities. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/20/2020. This web page provides information about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new laboratory test kit for use in testing patient specimens for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. The test kit is called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. (Text)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 5/20/2020. This one-hour, three-minute webinar describes best practices used to help with COVID-19 operational response planning; identifies innovative approaches to tracking and mapping COVID-19 cases, including required resources; and discusses how the Hospital Incident Command System (ICS) model facilitates informed decisions to effectively plan and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Video or Multimedia)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 5/20/2020. This brief presents findings from new data collected by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide insights into how health centers are adapting their services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how coronavirus is affecting their operations and long-term financial outlook with patient visits and revenue from those visits dropping precipitously. (Text)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: United Nations (UN). Published: 5/20/2020. The purpose of this 14-page paper, by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, is to examine the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on two demographic-economic measures, namely, the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime working years, respectively, both in aggregate and for each death. It provides preliminary, inevitably hypothetical, estimates of these measures for Italy and Kenya. (PDF)
05/12/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 5/12/2020. This fact sheet details how, to address immediate and projected needs from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments may, under certain conditions, be reimbursed through FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA) Program for costs associated with keeping Alternate Care Sites (ACS), including temporary and expanded medical facilities, minimally operational when COVID-19 cases diminish and the facilities are no longer in use. (Text)
05/08/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG). Published: 5/8/2020. This six-page document provides programmatic guidance to help maintain essential preventative, promotive, and curative sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in fragile and humanitarian settings during the COVID-19 epidemic threat and outbreak period. It includes general guidance and guidance for the continuation of sexual and reproductive health services, information and communication, and infection prevention and control. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Emory University School of Medicine. Published: 5/2020. This tool is to be used for checking your individual risk for COVID-19, based on best clinical practices, CDC guidelines, illness severity, and risk factors like age and pre-existing conditions. (Text)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Health Care for the Homeless Council (HCH). Published: 5/2020. This four-page issue brief is intended to provide public health authorities, emergency response systems, and alternate care site (ACS) program administrators with an operational framework that will improve the quality of care at ACS programs and promote longer-term stability for vulnerable people during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
04/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). Published: 4/6/2020. This five-page guidance was developed for use by medical providers caring for people who use drugs (PWUD) who are sheltering in place, or need to be isolated or quarantined for COVID-19. PWUD may be particularly hard hit by COVID-19 due to unstable housing and common medical comorbidities, including lung and heart disease. (PDF)
04/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published: 4/2020. This web page from the Center for American Indian Health provides COVID-19 resources for tribal use, including documents for specific audiences, radio PSAs, social media materials, and webinars. (Video or Multimedia)
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 four-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides resources in response to a request for ideas/recommendations for alternate care site (ACS) staffing solutions for COVID-19 medical surge (i.e., where to recruit/ find additional staff for these sites assuming there is little/no federal staffing or available Emergency Medical Assistance Compact [EMAC] support). (PDF)
03/26/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Published: 3/26/2020. This four-page document provides recommendations that are intended to prevent exposure to COVID-19 for migrant farmworkers, their employers, and housing providers, and protect the health of North Carolina’s communities, which include this important work force. (PDF)
03/23/2020 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: 3/23/2020. This four-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides resources in response to a request about staffing models for alternate care sites. Resource topics include alternate care site samples, higher acuity alternate case sites, and long-term care staffing. (PDF)
03/22/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Washington State Department of Health. Published: 3/22/2020. This seven-page document outlines considerations for developing an assessment and recovery location for COVID-19, including isolation and quarantine rooms, and other operational needs. Governmental agencies can identify existing building structures like motels, apartments, and other available building spaces to convert for use. (PDF)
03/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Army. Published: 3/2020. This web page provides materials to support states and municipalities in creating alternate care sites to support their medical requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, and general steps for implementing an alternate care site. (Text)
06/11/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 6/11/2019. According to this three-page report, for 2017, European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported one case of yellow fever. The travel-related case was reported by the Netherlands with exposure in Suriname. (PDF)
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