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Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: LifeHope 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel

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From the Document: "This Fact Sheet informs you of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of a Molecular LDT [laboratory developed test] COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Authorized Test called the LifeHope 2019-nCoV [novel coronavirus] Real-Time RT-PCR [reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction] Diagnostic Panel that has been issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by FDA. The Molecular LDT COVID-19 Authorized Test is authorized for use on certain respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider."

United States. Food and Drug Administration
COVID-19 Law Lab [website]

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From the Webpage: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is an unprecedented global challenge. It has seen a vast increase in urgent legislative action to control and reduce the pandemic. Well-designed laws can help build strong health systems; evaluate and approve safe and effective drugs and vaccines; advance human rights; and enforce actions to create healthier and safer public spaces and workplaces. The COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic. The goal is to ensure that laws protect the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities and that they adhere to international human rights standards."

United Nations Development Programme; World Health Organization; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS . . .
COVID-19 Fact Sheets & Guidance [website]

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From the Website: "[This site features] fact sheets and guidance documents related to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] response."

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Public Assistance Simplified Application

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From the Purpose: "FEMA may provide funding to eligible applicants for costs related to emergency protective measures conducted as a result of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Emergency protective measures are activities conducted to address immediate threats to life, public health, and safety. Eligible Applicants may submit funding requests to the Recipient and FEMA through the Public Assistance Grants Portal."

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 Testing at Skilled Nursing Facilities/ Nursing Homes

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From the Document: "Nursing homes will receive either a Quidel Sofia 2 Instrument or Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) Veritor™ Plus System over the coming months along with the associated FDA-authorized antigen diagnostic tests. To be eligible, nursing homes must have a current CLIA [Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments] Certificate of Waiver AND meet certain epidemiological criteria. The list of nursing homes is posted on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID [coronavirus disease] NHSN [National Healthcare Safety Network] data page and will be updated as new shipments go out. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will distribute the testing platforms and FDA-authorized antigen diagnostic tests to all nursing homes with a CLIA Certificate of Waiver over the next few months. Nursing homes mean facilities that are certified as a Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and/or Medicaid Nursing Facility (NF), otherwise referred to a Long Term Care Facility or nursing home."

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Guidance: Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Temporally Associated with COVID-19

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From the Document: "Most children are asymptomatic or exhibit mild symptoms from COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infection. However, in the last two months a small number of children have been identified who develop a significant systemic inflammatory response. All children have been diagnosed and managed appropriately along standard referral pathways. Affected children may require paediatric intensive care and input from paediatric infectious diseases, cardiology, and rheumatology. This rare syndrome shares common features with other paediatric inflammatory conditions including: Kawasaki disease, staphylococcal and streptococcal toxic shock syndromes, bacterial sepsis and macrophage activation syndromes. It can also present with unusual abdominal symptoms with excessive inflammatory markers. [...] This document is to raise awareness and gives management advice to clinicians and has been developed after expert review of the cases."

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
California's Physician Shortage During COVID-19: A Policy Roadmap to Expand Access to Care

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From the Executive Summary: "This report summarizes California's physician crisis and the shortage of primary care clinicians and proposes policy recommendations for steps to mitigate the current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, a potential second wave, and future public health crises that jeopardize the health of the workforce that sustains the world's fifth-largest economy."

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative

Martínez, Laura Elizabeth; Anaya, Yohualli Balderas-Medina; Vargas-Bustamante, Arturo . . .
Effective Use of 911 for Emergencies During Telehealth Sessions: Tips for Behavioral Healthcare Providers

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From the Document: "In the event that a patient presents with a life-safety risk of harm to self or others--or has a medical or other type of emergency--the behavioral healthcare provider may need to call 911 to get immediate assistance for the patient. These steps should be taken after telehealth emergency protocols have been put into place."

United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange
COVID-19 Demographic and Economic Resources [Website]

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From the Website: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Hub presents selected Census Bureau demographic and economic data to help guide decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are presented in interactive maps and downloadable resources that users can directly incorporate into their research and data products. The Hub was built in collaboration with the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and leverages many features of the ArcGIS platform and solution templates."

U.S. Census Bureau
Hospital Surge Capacity Tools [website]

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This webpage contains Hospital Surge Capacity tools for use during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.)

Benneyan, James
VRS Guide: How Companies Can Identify and Mitigate Emerging Pandemic Era Threats of Conflict & Violence

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From the Introduction: "From increased domestic and workplace violence to elevated hate crimes, rising gun sales, and advanced terrorism plans, new threats continue to plague the nation and the globe as we all grapple with the 'new reality' created by the ongoing COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Why and how are these threats emerging and what can we do about it? These are unprecedented times and we are all looking for answers."

Vigilance Risk Solutions
Procurement Under Grants: Under Exigent or Emergency Circumstances

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From the Document: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides financial assistance to states, territories, tribes, local governments, nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and other non-Federal entities. All FEMA grant programs are subject to the Federal procurement standards found at 2 C.F.R. §§ 200.317 - 200.326. Recognizing that FEMA's recipients and subrecipients may face exigencies or emergencies when carrying out a FEMA award, this Fact Sheet provides key information to consider when utilizing contracted resources under exigent or emergency circumstances."

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
COVID-19 Law Enforcement Impact Dashboard [website]

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This website features interactive charts and graphs detailing law enforcement coronavirus exposure. It also provides PPE [personal protective equipment] supply data and law enforcement personnel's ability to work. Data can be filtered by state and date.

Police Foundation (U.S.)
Basic Psychosocial Skills: A Guide for COVID-19 Responders

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From the Introduction: "Basic psychosocial support skills are at the core of any Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) intervention. Such skills are also indispensable for many others involved in the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] response, whether they identify as an MHPSS provider or not. Thus, this guide is meant for all COVID-19 responders. This Basic Psychosocial Skills Guide is a project by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee [IASC] Reference Group [RG] on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The project was supported by member agencies of the IASC MHPSS RG, with extensive inputs from COVID-19 survivors and COVID-19 responders from all sectors in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Canada, Denmark, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Uganda, UK, USA. They all responded to a survey to help us draft this guide and make it more relevant to their mental health and psychosocial needs. The initial draft was then opened up to further feedback from COVID-19 survivors and COVID-19 responders through review and additional in-depth interviews. The final guide incorporates this feedback."

Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Violent Non-State Actors and COVID-19: Challenge or Opportunity? [inforgraphic]

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This infographic contains information on "[h]ow COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has affected terrorist groups, organized crime groups, cartels, and gangs in specific regions."

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 27, 2020: COVID-19 Mitigation Behaviors by Age Group -- United States, April-June 2020

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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Mitigation Behaviors by Age Group -- United States, April-June 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
From the Factory to the Frontlines: The Operation Warp Speed Strategy for Distributing a COVID-19 Vaccine

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From the Document: "This report to Congress details a strategy to achieve the principal purpose and objective of Operation Warp Speed (OWS): ensuring that every American who wants to receive a COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccine can receive one, by delivering safe and effective vaccine doses to the American people beginning January 2021. [...] Once a vaccine has received approval or authorization from the FDA, the four key tasks to achieve the primary objective of ensuring vaccine access for every American who wants it are to: [1] Continue engaging with state, tribal, territorial, and local partners, other stakeholders, and the public to communicate public health information, before and after distribution begins, around the vaccine and promote vaccine confidence and uptake. [2] Distribute vaccines immediately upon granting of Emergency Use Authorization/ Biologics License Application, using a transparently developed, phased allocation methodology. [3] Ensure safe administration of the vaccine and availability of administration supplies. [4] Monitor necessary data from the vaccination program through an information technology (IT) system capable of supporting and tracking distribution, administration, and other necessary data."

United States. Department of Health and Human Services; United States. Department of Defense
Session 6 - Pandemic Flu Preparedness - Konkel

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This is the city of Wichita, Kansas's emergency preparedness plan for combating pandemic flu season.

Wichita (Kan.)
Clinical Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Infections When Novel Coronavirus is Suspected: What to Do and What Not to Do

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"The emergence of novel coronavirus in 2012 […] has presented challenges for clinical management. Pneumonia has been the most common clinical presentation; five patients developed Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Renal failure, pericarditis and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) have also occurred. Our knowledge of the clinical features of coronavirus infection is limited and no virus-specific prevention or treatment (e.g. vaccine or antiviral drugs) is available. Thus, this interim guidance document aims to help clinicians with supportive management of patients who have acute respiratory failure and septic shock as a consequence of severe infection. Because other complications have been seen (renal failure, pericarditis, DIC, as above) clinicians should monitor for the development of these and other complications of severe infection and treat them according to local management guidelines. As all confirmed cases reported to date have occurred in adults, this document focuses on the care of adolescents and adults. Paediatric considerations will be added later. This document will be updated as more information becomes available and after the revised Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines are published later this year (1). This document is for clinicians taking care of critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI). It will be helpful if you work in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that has limited resources -- i.e. limited access to mechanical ventilation, invasive hemodynamic monitoring and arterial blood gas analyzers -- or if you have limited access to specialty training. It is not meant to replace clinical training or specialist consultation but rather to strengthen your current clinical management of SARI and link you to the most up-to-date guidance. This document is organized into four sections, which correspond to clinical management steps. Section 1 focuses on the early recognition and management of patients with SARI and includes early initiation of supportive and infection prevention and control measures, and therapeutics. Section 2 focuses on management of patients who deteriorate and develop severe respiratory distress and ARDS. Section 3 focuses on the management of patients who deteriorate and develop septic shock. Section 4 focuses on ongoing care of the critically ill patient and best practices to prevent complications."

World Health Organization
Supporting the Financial Resilience of Citizens Throughout the COVID-19 Crisis

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From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has wide implications for the socio-economic fabric worldwide. In addition to health fears, citizens are facing a host of financial uncertainties stemming from the temporary closure of businesses, schools, public facilities and quarantines, as well as instability in the stock market and retirement income uncertainties. These can result in lost income, trouble paying bills, and meeting other financial obligations, as well as the risk of falling victim to scams and fraud. Policy makers worldwide need to increase the awareness of citizens about effective means to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential long-term consequences for their financial resilience and well-being."

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Hospital Preparedness: Multidisciplinary Pandemic Influenza Planning

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"Hospitals' planning processes for pandemic preparedness should incorporate multiple disciplines, including such departments as materials management, security, occupational health, and other relevant departments or disciplines."

Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
Pandemic Flu How Does Seasonal Flu Differ from Pandemic Flu?

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Side-by-side comparison of seasonal and pandemic flu.

North Dakota. Department of Health
Pandemic Flu History

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This web page provides a history of pandemic flu in the United States since 1918.

United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Influenza Pandemic Preparedness: A Concept Plan to Prepare for the Contingency of a Major Global Pandemic of Influenza

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"The WHO and health authorities worldwide have recognized that the world is under threat of a major pandemic of influenza which could potentially have serious effects on the health of the human population. Major pandemics have occurred in 1889, 1918/19, 1957 and 1968 and another major pandemic may well occur in the near future. The 1918/19 pandemic of influenza was one of the most devastating epidemics of an infectious disease to have affected mankind. This pandemic was directly responsible for over 20 million deaths, more than perished in conflict in the preceding Great War, and mainly affected previously healthy young adults. In South Africa the pandemic killed over 300 000 persons, overwhelming the ability of the authorities to dispose of the corpses, in addition to the total paralysis of the healthcare facilities for treating patients. Following on this epidemic there was, also, considerable post-epidemic morbidity in the form of encephalitis lethargica. Unfortunately science has not yet developed the tools to be able to predict when and where a future major pandemic will occur or what the impact of it will be. For this reason countries throughout the world have been invited to prepare contingency plans in the event of a future major pandemic. Were such an event to occur in the future, this would result in a vast demand for vaccine which could result in inequitable distribution as well as major demands for drugs such as antivirals and antibiotics.The WHO has established an influenza pandemic task force to prepare a blueprint plan to guide governments in preparing for the next pandemic. Account will need to be taken of this document when it does appear, probably towards the end of this year, in finalizing a definitive pandemic preparedness plan."

National Institute for Virology (South Africa)

Schoub, Barry D.
Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan [Lithuania]

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"Influenza and other acute respiratory infections (hereafter - ARI) cause the most harm to residents' health and stipulate most social and economic waste of all communicable diseases. Increase of population incidence and mortality during influenza epidemic condition not only influenza and pneumonias, but also cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, the exacerbation of which is instigated by influenza infection. After increasing incidence of pneumonia and other chronic diseases, more patients are hospitalised. Different complications occur mostly and are more dangerous for elderly people and people suffering from chronic diseases. During influenza epidemic about of 80% of cause the death of elderly people (65 years and elder). There are registered from 40 to 190 thousand cases of influenza annually (in average - 100 thousand). Yearly about 500 million of people worldwide get sick with influenza."

Republic of Lithuania
Maine: Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan

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This webpage provides the most recent version of Maine's Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan. It includes the Base Plan and respective Functional Annexes. Taken from website: "Beginning in 2005, Maine CDC and others developed their Pandemic Influenza Operations Plan based on the probability of the occurrence of a pandemic strain with a much higher severity index rate such as H5H1 rather than H1N1 of 2009, which had a much lower severity index. The Plan has been revised and designed to be adaptable and scalable to facilitate a customized response depending on the severity and transmissibility of the circulating novel virus. Also of note in this revision: (1) The Plan includes a refinement of both the Maine Levels and Maine Pandemic Periods, which serve as a more precise set of 'trigger points' for suggested actions relevant to a pandemic in Maine (2) The Post Pandemic Recovery Period is more fully developed (3) The planning Assumptions have been updated (4) The Lessons Learned derived from the H1N1 Pandemic of 2009 experience have been identified and incorporated in to the Plan to strengthen Maine's readiness for, response to, and recovery from a future pandemic event and (5) Several new Supplements have been added to the Plan to enrich the reference, and to be consistent with the HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan."

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Supporting State Behavioral Health Systems During COVID-19 Response and Recovery

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From the Background: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is having immediate and long-term impacts on behavioral health (i.e. mental health and substance use disorder) systems in all states. Governors and their senior health and human services advisors play an essential role in incorporating a behavioral health strategy into the state COVID-19 response and recovery approach. [...] This paper identifies for Governors the key issues that are currently challenging state behavioral health systems, along with actions that state agencies may consider to support and sustain behavioral health services. Many of the issues identified below are still emerging and state and federal actions will require ongoing follow up to determine outcomes."

National Governors' Association
Vaccine Hesitancy in South Asia

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From the Document: "Low prioritization of healthcare spending on immunization, inadequate population data, and low vaccination demand have all contributed to low vaccine coverage in the South Asia region. Vaccine hesitancy is increasingly contributing to vaccine refusal and low vaccine coverage. While vaccine hesitancy has not yet been widely studied or characterized in South Asia, parents and caregivers have reported perceived low need for vaccines and limited understanding of the importance of vaccines as reasons for declining routine vaccines. Increased means of communication and use of social media have allowed for a more intense and rapid spread of misinformation and anti-vaccination propaganda that also contribute to vaccine hesitancy in South Asia."

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Science of Social Distancing, Part 1 [webinar]

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From the Website: "In our first COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Conversations webinar, our lineup of public health, medical and emergency experts shared the science on social distancing as well as strategies to support it. And we explored how findings from past pandemics -- as well as the current one -- can shape responses today." This webpage provides the webinar recording, four sets of slides, and a transcript.

American Public Health Association; National Academy of Medicine

Messonnier, Nancy; Markel, Howard; Lipsitch, Marc . . .
COVID-19 Conversations [website]

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From the Website: "Brought to you by the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine, this webinar series is exploring the state of the science surrounding the current outbreak of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in the United States and globally, with a focus on the emerging evidence on how to best mitigate its impact. Hear from trusted experts in such fields as public health, infectious disease, risk communication, and crisis standards of care."

National Academy of Medicine; American Public Health Association

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