05/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: BC Centre for Disease Control [Government of British Columbia]. Published: 5/21/2020. This 10-page document provides provincial guidance to protect the safety of workers handling COVID-19 suspected or positive decedents, inform standardized operating procedures, and address specific COVID-19 considerations with respect to the care of the body after death. (PDF)
05/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published: 5/21/2020. With many U.S. states reopening to some degree following shutdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19, leading experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Johns Hopkins University map team share their insights, recommendations, and cautions based on the best available data and science in this 42-minute presentation. (Video or Multimedia)
05/21/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 5/21/2020. This 37-page report models the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. at the state level, using publicly available death data within a Bayesian hierarchical semi-mechanistic framework. For each state, it estimates the time-varying reproduction number (the average number of secondary infections caused by an infected person), the number of individuals that have been infected, and the number of individuals that are currently infectious. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 5/20/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Prismaflex ST Set to provide continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) to treat patients in an acute care environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 5/20/2020. In preparing for the 2020 hurricane season, this 59-page document provides actionable guidance to state, local, tribal, and territorial officials to prepare for response and recovery operations, and encourages personal preparedness measures amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While this document focuses on hurricane season preparedness, most planning considerations can also be applied to any disaster operation in the COVID-19 environment, including no-notice incidents, spring flooding and wildfire seasons, and typhoon response. (PDF)
05/20/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Resolve to Save Lives. Published: 5/20/2020. This 14-page briefing note explains why an alert-level system with four colored levels for COVID-19 is effective, compares models from several countries, and provides the key principles and potential pitfalls to be aware of when developing these systems. It is intended to provide guidance to local, regional, and national governments on best practices for alert-level systems, and on how to clearly communicate what behaviors people should adopt in response to changing COVID-19 conditions in their community. (Text)
05/06/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [National Institutes of Health] (NIEHS). Published: 5/6/2020. This one-hour, 11-minute webinar discusses observations and projections about climate change, how climate change affects health, health implications of climate actions, greenhouse gas concentrations, and "how long a useful truth may be known." (Video or Multimedia)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 5/2020. This 60-page document briefly summarizes CDC’s initiatives, activities, and tools in support of the Whole-of-Government response to COVID-19. Chapters describe Surveillance for COVID-19; Healthcare System Surveillance; Guidance on Infection Control and Contact Tracing; Guidance on Test Usage (Asymptomatic Populations and Serology); Assessing Surveillance and Hospital Gating Indicators; and Setting Specific Guidance. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/2020. This 11-page report examines the performance of the World Health Organization Emergencies (WHE) Programme during the first few months of the COVID-19 outbreak. It is a compilation of observations of how the structures and processes established by WHO, through the WHE Programme and related mechanisms, functioned from January to April 2020. It discusses how there has been a palpable lack of global solidarity and common purpose, which is a recipe for extending and worsening the global outbreak, leaving all countries less secure. (PDF)
05/01/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Public Health Ontario. Published: 5/2020. This 44-page document is intended for practitioners in the fields of public health and health emergency management. It provides a high-level orientation to the findings from a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-funded study. The two-phase study involved developing a framework for public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) and identifying and defining corresponding indicators for guiding performance measurement and improvement for PHEP in Canada. (PDF)
04/24/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Published: 4/24/2020. This four-page document provides recommendations for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies to protect their personnel from COVID-19 exposure while providing transport of patients in the high-risk period of disease transmission. (PDF)
04/23/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 4/23/2020. This analysis focuses on the characteristics of the 4.5 million people who work in long-term care settings. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first surfaced in the United States, outbreaks in these facilities have been widespread, and it is estimated that about one-fifth of all deaths from COVID-19 are tied to nursing facilities. (Text)
04/17/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Published: 4/17/2020. This nine-page document provides a comprehensive overview of the USAID's water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) strategic approaches in support of each pillar of the joint USAID and State Department U.S. Strategy to Prevent, Prepare for, and Respond to Coronavirus Abroad. Ensuring services such as drinking water and sanitation are continuously available during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to governance, economic growth, and preventing development backsliding. (PDF)
04/16/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). Published: 4/16/2020. This 13-page guidance document synthesizes the evidence on the use of masks as a control measure to impede the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. It outlines the main types of masks, their effectiveness in providing protection against pathogenic hazards, and considerations for their safe use. (PDF)
04/15/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Published: 4/15/2020. This three-page document provides procedural guidance to EMS agencies on practices that could result in improved call screening and Public Safety Answering Point and EMS care with the potential to decrease unnecessary COVID-19 transports to hospitals. If adopted, these could alleviate a significant load to the currently strained healthcare system, and decrease additional infectious disease exposures among the community and healthcare providers. (PDF)
04/03/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/3/2020. This web page details who needs to use personal protective equipment (PPE), and how to put it on and take it off. (Video or Multimedia)
03/30/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: George Institute. Published: 3/30/2020. This 10-page report was written to support the planning and development of resources for ensuring preparedness of frontline health workers for COVID-19. The findings highlight what we can learn from recent pandemics so we are prepared for potential scenarios and challenges due to COVID-19. (PDF)
03/29/2020 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Public Health Ontario. Published: 3/29/2020. Current literature was reviewed for this nine-page document, including select jurisdictional guidance documents, of evidence related to the transmission of COVID-19 to inform recommendations for first responders’ personal protective equipment (PPE). First responders should select PPE based on a patient interaction risk assessment. (PDF)
02/01/2020 12:00 AM EST
Source: Public Health Ontario. Published: 2/2020. This 43-page document sets out interim best practices to address a novel respiratory infection, for all health care settings, prior to specific guidance being issued. It takes a precautionary approach that combines Airborne Precautions and Droplet/Contact Precautions when the aetiology agent or epidemiology is not yet known, and the morbidity and mortality are presumed to be severe. (PDF)
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