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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Homeless Sheltering
From the Background: "[1] This document highlights practices from across the country that can supplement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Interim Guidance for Homeless Service Providers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) . Additional information can be found in the CDC Interim Guidance on Unsheltered Homelessness and Coronavirus Disaster 2019 (COVID-19) for Homeless Service Providers and Local Officials. [2] People experiencing homelessness including people living on the streets and people in temporary facilities, are at risk for infection where there is a community spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. [3] The following is a list of key findings and considerations for jurisdictions and communities regarding ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-06-03
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COVID-19 Best Practice Information: Nuclear Industry Response
From the Background: "[1] Nuclear medical technology applications show promise as a path to efficiently test for the 2019 novel coronavirus and sterilize medical supplies. Nuclear energy represents a reliable source of electricity for many areas worldwide. [2] The following is a list of key findings and considerations for jurisdictions and communities regarding ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic operations across the country. These are best practices for consideration and do not constitute and should not be considered as guidance in any way."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-06-03
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COVID's Color Line-- Infectious Disease, Inequity, and Racial Justice
From the Document: "The disproportionate effects of the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic on African Americans, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans is not unforeseen. Inequities in health, health care access, and quality of care are ingrained in the U.S. health care system. These inequities are not a sign of a broken system: in fact, in this sense, the system is operating just as it was built to operate. It promulgates poor health outcomes for Black and Brown people as an ineffable legacy of slavery. In New York City and other major metropolitan areas, Black and Latinx people have substantially higher Covid-19 incidence and age-adjusted death rates than Whites. American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest age-adjusted hospitalization rates, followed by African Americans and Latinx people. Black people and other minorities who live in poverty, in dense conditions, on the street, or on reservations or who perform 'essential' jobs are at unusual risk for infection."
New England Journal of Medicine
Evans, Michele K.
2020-06-30
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COVID-19 in Brazil: Impacts and Policy Responses
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is exposing Brazil to an unprecedented challenge. With a view to containing the pandemic, Brazil, as almost all other countries, has implemented measures to slow the spread of the virus (or 'flatten the curve'). This was an attempt to avoid overwhelming the health care system with large numbers of severe case patients. Although Brazil has one of the strongest health care systems in Latin America, capacity is highly uneven across the country. The spread of the virus toward poorer areas with lower health care capacity, especially in the North and Northeast of Brazil, poses a threat to the system's ability to respond to an increased demand for services. This would add pressure to the already overcrowded public health care system, and endanger more lives, particularly among the poor and vulnerable."
World Bank Group
Hanusch, Marek, 1982-
2020-06
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Retirement Security: Older Women Report Facing a Financially Uncertain Future, Report to the Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate
From the Highlights: "Older adults represent a growing portion of the U.S. population and older women have a longer life expectancy, on average, than older men. Prior GAO [Government Accountability Office] work has found that challenges women face during their working years can affect their lifetime earnings and retirement income. For example, we found women were overrepresented in low wage professions, paid less money than their male counterparts during their careers, and were more likely to leave the workforce to care for family members. Taken together, these trends may have significant effects on women's financial security in retirement. GAO was asked to report on the financial security of older women. This report examines (1) women retirees' perspectives on their financial security, and (2) what is known about the financial security of older women in retirement."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-07
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Homelessness: Better HUD Oversight of Data Collection Could Improve Estimates of Homeless Population, Report to the Chairwoman, Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives
From the Highlights: "Policymakers have raised concerns about the extent to which recent increases in homelessness are associated with the availability of affordable housing. Moreover, counting the homeless population is a longstanding challenge. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to review the current state of homelessness in the United States. This report examines (1) efforts to measure homelessness and HUD's [Department of Housing and Urban Development] oversight of these efforts and (2) factors associated with recent changes in homelessness."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-07
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Opioid Use Disorder: Treatment with Injectable and Implantable Buprenorphine, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "In 2018, SAMHSA [Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration] estimated that about one-quarter of the estimated 2 million people with OUD [opioid use disorder] had received some form of substance use treatment in the prior year. One form of treatment--medication-assisted treatment (MAT)-- combines behavioral therapy with the use of certain medications. HHS has identified expanding access to treatment for OUD as an important strategy for reducing opioid morbidity and mortality, which includes increasing the number of injectable and implantable buprenorphine prescriptions. Congress included a provision in the SUPPORT [Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities] Act for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review access to and the potential for the diversion of controlled substances administered by injection or implantation. This report focuses on injectable and implantable controlled substances that can be used to treat OUD and specifically, describes the process for treating OUD with injectable and implantable buprenorphine and what is known about their use."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-08
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Multisectoral Checklist for School Re-Openings and School-Based Nutrition in the Context of COVID-19
From the Introduction: "The closure of schools due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has meant that large numbers of vulnerable children have been unable to access formal learning, school meals and selected nutrition and health services for extended periods. School meals provided at school contribute vital nutrients to the children's diets, while acting as a motivation for school attendance particularly for the most marginalised and needy children. [...] The COVID-19 pandemic has, however, disrupted all these nutrition-related measures delivered through schools. In addition, the nutrition and health status of many school children will have suffered during the pandemic as diets at the household have been compromised due to loss of income, lack of availability of some foods and changing dietary practices due to lock-down and other containment measures. Therefore, there is an urgency for putting multi-sectoral measures in place to build back better and protect and enhance the nutrition and health outcomes of school children as they return to school."
UNICEF; World Food Programme
2020-07-28
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Weekly COVID-19 Disinformation and False Propaganda Report (July 2, 2020)
From the Key Highlights: "Based on our analysis of social media activity on Twitter between June 25 and July 2, the tweet with widest reach that used the word virus was President Trump's claim that 'cases up only because of our big number testing.' The tweet reached 82.4 million users. The claim is false. Although more testing in communities does uncover more cases, a major driver of the increase is increased circulation and spread of the virus -- particularly among younger populations. In fact we are currently experiencing higher positivity rates, or the percentage of tests being identified as positive, which is an indicator of greater spread. [...] The Pew Research Center found that 28% of American adults surveyed felt confident in their ability to fact-check COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] related news. Comparing misinformation surrounding COVID-19 to that disseminated during the 2016 election, the following analysis argues that misinformation regarding COVID-19 is more easily digested due to its nature as an emerging and complex infectious disease. This creates 'a vacuum that is all too easily filled by conspiracy theories and misinformation,' leaving Americans especially prone to what has been termed 'a pandemic of misinformation.'"
Federation of American Scientists
2020-07-02
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Weekly COVID-19 Disinformation and False Propaganda Report (As of July 23 2020)
From the Key Highlights: "[1] Twitter and other social media platforms have increased their monitoring and surveillance of conspiracy theories and disinformation, resulting in an observable suspension of accounts and deletion of tweets spreading disinformation. [2] According to a recent poll released by Axios-Ipsos, nearly a third of Americans believe that the number of deaths resulting from COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] are less than what is officially reported. [...] [3] Conspiracies regarding government surveillance via microchips in vaccines and through contact tracers are ongoing. [4] The majority of tweets about COVID-19 are retweets or quotes. [...] [5] In Michigan, local medical experts are combating the view that government officials are inflating mortality numbers for the purpose pressuring mandatory mask usage. [...] [6] Our social media analysis indicates the overall sentiment of the conversation regarding 'masks' were 59% negative and 44% negative for 'contact tracing.' This suggests the compliance on mask usage and contact tracing will continue to face an uphill battle as many social media conversations are negative instead of viewing the initiatives as positive actions that will save lives."
Federation of American Scientists
2020-07-23
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COVID Research Synergies Meeting - Panel Discussion [video]
This video contains the following: closing discussion on COVID-19 vaccines; closing discussion on therapeutics and COVID-19; closing discussion on social sciences research and COVID-19; and "Preparing for a Second Wave - Understanding Transmission and How to Stop COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]." The duration of this video is 3 hours, 9 minutes, and 45 seconds.
Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness
2020-07-23
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COVID-19 and a Possible Political Reckoning in Thailand
From the Executive Summary: "Thailand so far has curbed the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, but it faces a severe economic shock that will deepen existing inequalities and is likely to fan smoldering political tensions. The economic strategy that lifted Thailand to upper middle-income status by 2011 has faltered over the past decade, leading to severe inequality and rising poverty, and the pandemic has now slowed the growth model's twin engines - exports and tourism. Already facing questions about its legitimacy following a 2019 election marred by irregularities, the military-backed Thai government will be hard pressed to meet the needs of a population facing massive unemployment, loss of income and rising debt. The fundamental problem is political: the reforms necessary to upgrade Thailand's economy run counter to the interests of the country's elite. What is needed is a new constitution that allows for articulation of popular interests through elected representatives and accountable institutions. The coronavirus, auguring the biggest economic shock since the 1997-1998 financial crisis, could hasten a social, economic and political reckoning."
International Crisis Group
2020-08-04
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Kicking Folks Out While They're Down: How the Premature Lifting of Coronavirus Restrictions is Increasing Evictions and Worsening the Homelessness Crisis
From the Introduction and Summary: "Experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity at any time is a struggle, but during a pandemic, survival is even more fraught. More than 560,000 people experience homelessness on any given night, and at least 1.4 million utilize emergency shelters or transitional housing in the United States each year. These high numbers will certainly surge during and after the coronavirus crisis due to job losses that place those already barely keeping a roof over their heads at an even greater risk of eviction and homelessness. [...] Once the immediate threat of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has passed and the United States enters the long recovery period, it must earnestly strive to put 'America's health first' by explicitly recognizing that housing is health care. A health-first approach necessitates a housing-first focus dedicated to redressing the United States' decades-old housing and homelessness crises."
Center for American Progress
Frederick, Rejane; Lake, Jaboa Shawntaé, 1991-
2020-07
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Congress Must Help Rural America Respond to the Coronavirus
From the Introduction and Summary: "America has entered the fifth month of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily case counts continue to rise, even as the virus' spread slows in many other countries around the world. Though the number of cases is rising, much of the national discourse has focused on the economy--specifically, how the government can help spur an economic recovery. In many cases, however, these discussions and debates have not centered the residents of hard-hit rural communities. [...] This report analyzes the dynamics of recent household expenditures and business activity in rural America and offers three key takeaways: [1] Many rural areas, particularly rural communities of color, are experiencing coronavirus case numbers and deaths that now surpass those of the large metropolitan areas that dominated the news cycle early on during the pandemic. [2] The $1,200 direct payments given directly to households as part of the relief provided by the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act boosted spending and business revenues in April, especially in Southern rural communities. [3] While the percentage of small businesses that were open rose in May and early June, this number plummeted through the end of June along with small-business revenues; this trend coincides with the recent spikes in COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases, especially in the Sun Belt region."
Center for American Progress
Ajilore, Olugbenga
2020-07
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IDF Should Not Be Responsible for Managing the Covid-19 Crisis
From the Document: "Following the outbreak in Israel of a second wave of the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and the government's difficulty in successfully handling the combined health-economic-social crisis, growing voices - including among senior politicians within the governing coalition - are calling for the Ministry of Defense to be assigned the task of managing the campaign. Some are also calling explicitly for the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] to assume direct responsibility for managing the crisis. This call was to be expected, especially given the high public trust in the IDF. The debate over the involvement of the security establishment and the IDF has a distinct political context. At the same time, whether it is appropriate for the IDF to deepen its involvement in this civilian campaign and whether there are lines within Israeli democracy the IDF should not cross must be carefully considered. We propose that the guiding directive on this critical matter be that the IDF provide all the assistance needed for the civilian authorities, but refrain from assuming overall responsibility for managing the crisis."
Institute for National Security Studies
Elran, Meir; Padan, Carmit
2020-07-30
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CORD-19: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset [website]
From the Description: "The dataset contains all COVID-19 and coronavirus-related research (e.g. SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome], MERS [Middle East respiratory syndrome], etc.) from the following sources: [1] PubMed's PMC [PubMed Central] open access corpus using this query (COVID-19 and coronavirus research); [2] Additional COVID-19 research articles from a corpus maintained by the WHO [World Health Organization]; [and 3] bioRxiv and medRxiv pre-prints using the same query as PMC (COVID-19 and coronavirus research). We also provide a comprehensive metadata file of 29,000 coronavirus and COVID-19 research articles with links to PubMed, Microsoft Academic and the WHO COVID-19 database of publications (includes articles without open access full text)."
Semantic Scholar
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Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. Atellica® IM SARS-CoV-2 IgG (COV2G)
From the Document: "This Fact Sheet informs you of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the Atellica® IM SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] IgG (COV2G) assay."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
2020-07-31
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Database of State Voting Laws: Preparing for Elections During a Pandemic
From the Description: "The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a severe threat to state election plans in 2020 for primaries and for the general election. To conduct an election during the COVID-19 pandemic, states need registration and voting options that minimize direct personal contact and that reduce crowds and common access to high-touch surfaces. Another way to think about preparedness for conducting elections during a pandemic is to consider the flexibility that state election processes afford in terms of where, when, and how voters can get registered and cast votes. Particularly valuable to flexibility in the pandemic context are options that allow for the registration and voting processes to happen remotely or in ways that reduce person-to-person contact. This tool supplements a companion report and provides state-by-state granular details about voter registration, remote voting, and early voting, including references to relevant state laws. This report is part of RAND's Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse and the policymaking process."
RAND Corporation
Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981; Gibson, C. Ben; Cherney, Samantha
2020
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Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: Xiamen Zeesan Biotech Co., Ltd. Sars-Cov-2 Test Kit (Real-Time Pcr)
From the Document: "This Fact Sheet informs you of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Test Kit (Real-time PCR [polymerase chain reaction]). The SARS-CoV-2 Test Kit (Real-time PCR) is authorized for use with respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] by their healthcare provider."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
2020-07-31
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Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: Clinical Reference Laboratory, Inc. - CRL Rapid Response
From the Document: "This Fact Sheet informs you of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the CRL [Clinical Reference Laboratory] Rapid Response test that has been authorized for emergency use with saliva specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] by their healthcare provider."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
2020-07-30
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Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and U.S. Trade Agreements [Updated August 5, 2020]
This document contains a timeline for the U.S. Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and U.S. Trade Agreements.
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Fergusson, Ian F.; Williams, Brock R.; Hutchinson, Jamie
2020-08-05
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Survey Tool and Guidance: Rapid, Simple, Flexible Behavioural Insights on COVID-19, Monitoring Knowledge, Risk Perceptions, Preventive Behaviours and Trust to Inform Pandemic Outbreak Response
From the Introduction: "This document provides guidance to Member States in the WHO [World Health Organization] European Region that wish to conduct behavioural insights studies related to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak is placing an overwhelming burden on health systems and authorities to respond with effective and appropriate interventions, policies and messages. A poorly timed and managed pandemic response or transition phase can threaten the gains collectively achieved. The pandemic and its restrictions may have affected mental and physical well-being, social cohesion, economic stability as well as individual and community resilience and trust. In this complex context, understanding how, why and the context in which humans and communities respond allows to 1) anticipate unwanted scenarios and initiate mitigating measures; and 2) implement pandemic response measures that are better informed, situated, accepted and thus more effective. Population surveys can explore perceptions, acceptance of restrictions, mental and physical health, behaviours, information needs, misperceptions and more."
World Health Organization; World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
2020-07-29
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Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone-Enhanced Surveillance Programs
From the Document: "Dozens of countries, including the United States, have been using mobile phone tools and data sources for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] surveillance activities, such as tracking infections and community spread, identifying populated areas at risk, and enforcing quarantine orders. These tools can augment traditional epidemiological interventions, such as contact tracing with technology-based data collection (e.g., automated signaling and record-keeping on mobile phone apps). As the response progresses, other beneficial technologies could include tools that authenticate those with low risk of contagion or that build community trust as stay-at-home orders are lifted. However, the potential benefits that COVID-19 mobile phone-enhanced public health ('mobile') surveillance program tools could provide are also accompanied by potential for harm. There are significant risks to citizens from the collection of sensitive data, including personal health, location, and contact data. People whose personal information is being collected might worry about who will receive the data, how those recipients might use the data, how the data might be shared with other entities, and what measures will be taken to safeguard the data from theft or abuse. The risk of privacy violations can also impact government accountability and public trust."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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Estimating Mortality from COVID-19: Scientific Brief
From the Background: "For COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], as for many infectious diseases, the true level of transmission is frequently underestimated because a substantial proportion of people with the infection are undetected either because they are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms and thus typically fail to present at healthcare facilities. There may also be neglected or under-served segments of the population who are less likely to access healthcare or testing. Under-detection of cases may be exacerbated during an epidemic, when testing capacity may be limited and restricted to people with severe cases and priority risk groups (such as frontline healthcare workers, elderly people and people with comorbidities). Cases may also be misdiagnosed and attributed to other diseases with similar clinical presentation, such as influenza. Differences in mortality between groups of people and countries are important proxy indicators of relative risk of death that guide policy decisions regarding scarce medical resource allocation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This document is intended to help countries estimate CFR [case fatality ratio] and, if possible, IFR [infection fatality ratio], as appropriately and accurately as possible, while accounting for possible biases in their estimation."
World Health Organization
2020-08-04
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Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs
From the Description: "Public health officials around the world are struggling to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain the highly infectious disease, governments have turned to mobile phone surveillance programs to augment traditional public health interventions. These programs have been designed to track COVID-19 symptoms, map population movement, trace the contacts of infected persons, enforce quarantine orders, and authorize movement through health passes. Although these programs enable more-robust public health interventions, they also raise concerns that the privacy and civil liberties of users will be violated. In this report, the authors evaluate the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of these programs--including political, economic, and social harms. They consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: (1) the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID 19 and future public health crises, and (2) the protection of privacy and civil liberties."
RAND Corporation
Boudreaux, Benjamin; DeNardo, Matthew A.; Denton, Sarah W. . . .
2020
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Options for Ensuring Safe Elections: Preparing for Elections During a Pandemic
From the Description: "The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a severe threat to state election plans in 2020 for primaries and for the general election. To conduct an election during a potentially continuing threat from COVID-19, states need to consider how to conduct voter registration and provide voting options. Several voting and registration options are available to states to ensure the safety of elections despite the pandemic. These options are outlined in this report, taking into account the factors that officials will have to examine in determining how to conduct the election safely; the advantages and challenges of each approach; and levels of risk regarding safety, integrity, access, and logistics. This report is part of RAND's Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse and the policymaking process."
RAND Corporation
Hodgson, Quentin E.; Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981; Garg, Anusree . . .
2020
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Emergency Special Enrollment Period Would Boost Health Coverage Access at a Critical Time
From the Document: "Twenty-seven percent more people used special enrollment periods (SEPs) to sign up for plans in the federal marketplace in early 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. While this is significant, far more people with health and financial worries during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic likely would enroll in federal marketplace plans if given the chance. With typical SEPs mainly available to those losing other health coverage, many people losing their jobs or much of their income in this crisis won't qualify this year for marketplace coverage unless the Trump Administration provides an emergency SEP. Many people who are otherwise eligible for significant financial assistance in the federal marketplace (HealthCare.gov) will not be able to access it because they cannot enroll in a marketplace plan. Congress should direct the Administration to make marketplace coverage broadly available by creating an emergency SEP, especially given widespread support for the idea from patient groups, health care providers, state officials, employers, and the health insurance industry. Many states that established emergency SEPs in their own state-run marketplaces have seen SEP growth far surpassing that of HealthCare.gov, even though smaller shares of the people losing their jobs in these states qualify for financial assistance to help pay for coverage. (Instead, more qualify for Medicaid or other health programs.) SEP growth in these state-run marketplaces is a sign that an emergency SEP could help expand enrollment in HealthCare.gov states as well."
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Lueck, Sarah; Broaddus, Matt
2020-07-30
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Reducing Uncertainty and Restoring Confidence During the Coronavirus Recession
From the Testimony: "Chairman Lee, Vice Chairman Beyer, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the privilege of participating in this hearing on addressing the nation's economic crisis. In this short testimony, I want to make four main points: [1] The economy and, especially, the labor market entered 2020 in good condition, but have been buffeted by an economic downdraft of unprecedented scale and unique origins; [2] The policy response thus far by the Federal Reserve and Congress has been correspondingly of unprecedented scale and has prevented an enormous amount of distress and economic damage; [3] Examining the data from the onset of the recession highlights the importance of supply conditions and policies that assist businesses and their customers to operate in the presence of the virus; and [4] There does not appear to be a strong case for 'automatic stabilizers' in the form of expanded mandatory spending[.]"
American Action Forum
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
2020-07-30
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COVID-19 Industry Guidance: Public and Private Passenger Carriers, Transit, and Intercity Passenger Rail
From the Purpose: "This document provides guidance for public and private passenger carriers (e.g. shuttle providers, taxis, and rideshare operators), transit agencies, California state-supported intercity passenger rail operators (Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, and Pacific Surfliner), and passenger vessel operations. The guidance is intended to support a safe, clean environment for workers and customers. The guidance is not intended to revoke or repeal any worker rights, either statutory, regulatory or collectively bargained, and is not exhaustive, as it does not include county health orders, nor is it a substitute for any existing safety and health-related regulatory requirements such as those of Cal/OSHA [California/Occupational Safety and Health Administration]. Additionally, it is not intended to conflict with federal or state requirements for rail or transit vehicles or facilities. Stay current on changes to public health guidance and state/local orders, as the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] situation continues. Cal/OSHA has more comprehensive guidance on their Cal/OSHA Interim General Guidelines on Protecting Workers from COVID-19 webpage. CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has specific guidelines for the transit industry."
California. Department of Public Health
2020-07-29
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DRAFT Landscape of COVID-19 Candidate Vaccines
This document details 29 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
World Health Organization
2020-08-13
