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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force
From the Document: "The Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force is executing a whole-of-America approach to address limited supply of critical protective and life-saving equipment. Through a four-prong approach of 'Preservation, Acceleration, Expansion and Allocation', FEMA is bringing the full capacity of the Federal government to bear to find solutions to protect the American people and defeat COVID-19."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-03-29
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[Letter from Denise M. Hinton to Manufacturers of Imported, Non-NIOSH-Approved Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators; Health Care Personnel; Hospital Purchasing Departments and Distributors; Importers and Commercial Wholesalers; and Any Other Applicable Stakeholders, March 28, 2020]
From the Letter: "On February 4, 2020, pursuant to Section 564(b)(1)(C) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) (21 U.S.C. §360bbb-3(b)(1)(C)), the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determined that there is a public health emergency that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad, and that involves the virus that causes COVID-19 [Coronavirus Disease 2019]. Pursuant to Section 564 of the Act, and on the basis of such determination, the Secretary of HHS then declared on March 2, 2020, that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of personal respiratory protective devices during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, subject to the terms of any authorization issued under that Section."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
Hinton, Denise M.
2020-03-28
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Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response [March 28, 2020]
From the Document: "As the Nation comes together to slow the spread of COVID-19, on March 16th the President issued updated Coronavirus Guidance for America that highlighted the importance of the critical infrastructure workforce. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) executes the Secretary of Homeland Security's authorities to secure critical infrastructure. Consistent with these authorities, CISA has developed, in collaboration with other federal agencies, State and local governments, and the private sector, an 'Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce' advisory list. This list is intended to help State, local, tribal and territorial officials as they work to protect their communities, while ensuring continuity of functions critical to public health and safety, as well as economic and national security. Decisions informed by this list should also take into consideration additional public health considerations based on the specific COVID-19[coronavirus disease]-related concerns of particular jurisdictions."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Krebs, Christopher
2020-03-28
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Administrator Gaynor's Letter to Emergency Managers
This document contains the Administrator Gaynor's letter to emergency managers.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-03-27
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Long-Term Care Nursing Homes Telehealth and Telemedicine Tool Kit
From the Intent: "Under President Trump's leadership to respond to the need to limit the spread of community COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has broadened access to Medicare telehealth services so that beneficiaries can receive a wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. These policy changes build on the regulatory flexibilities granted under the President's emergency declaration. CMS is expanding this benefit on a temporary and emergency basis under the 1135 waiver authority and Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act. The benefits are part of the broader effort by CMS and the White House Task Force to ensure that all Americans - particularly those at high-risk of complications from the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, are aware of easy-to-use, accessible benefits that can help keep them healthy while helping to contain the community spread of this virus."
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
2020-03-27
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Training and Technical Assistance Related to COVID-19
This document contains various resources related to the COVID-19 outbreak including roundtables, tip sheets, webinars, and online trainings.
United States. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
2020-03-26?
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 20 Issue 13, March 26, 2020
The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "COVID-19 cost recovery for fire and EMS [emergency medical services] departments"; "Mutual Aid Resource Planner"; "Improving your risk and crisis communication"; "Webinars: Coping with COVID-19: Best Practices for Police, Fire/EMS"; "South Carolina fire district electronic systems hacked"; "Hackers use HHS.gov "open redirect" to push malware"; "What should you do instead of paying the ransom?"; and "Remote work must be both reliable and safe".
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2020-03-26
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Coronavirus Spreads Through Africa [map]
From the Website: "'The coronavirus pandemic has spread rapidly since it arrived in Africa. This time series analysis tracks the logarithmic dissemination of COVID-19 across the continent.'"
National Defense University. Africa Center for Strategic Studies
2020-03-25
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Whole-Of-Government Response [March 25, 2020]
From the Document: "Under the direction of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, FEMA, HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] and our federal partners are working with state, local, tribal and territorial governments to execute a whole of government response to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and protect the public."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-03-25
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Master Question List for COVID-19 (Caused by SARS-CoV-2): Weekly Report 25 March 2020
From the Foreword: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paying close attention to the evolving Coronavirus Infectious Disease (COVID-19) situation in order to protect our nation. DHS is working very closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and public health officials to implement public health control measures related to travelers and materials crossing our borders from the affected regions. [...] The Master Question List (MQL) is intended to quickly present the current state of available information to government decision makers in the operational response to COVID-19 and allow structured and scientifically guided discussions across the federal government without burdening them with the need to review scientific reports, and to prevent duplication of efforts by highlighting and coordinating research. The information contained in the following table has been assembled and evaluated by experts from publicly available sources to include reports and articles found in scientific and technical journals, selected sources on the internet, and various media reports. It is intended to serve as a 'quick reference' tool and should not be regarded as a comprehensive source of information, nor as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the DHS or the U.S. Government."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate
2020-03-25
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COVID-19 Update: Optimization Strategies for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) [presentation]
These presentation slides from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contain web resources related to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) as well as an overview of the products and services offered by Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA). The full video presentation can be view here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJblRPy3aW0&feature=youtu.be].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-03-25
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COVID-19 Update: Optimization Strategies for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) [video]
From the Webpage: "During this COCA [Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity] Call, presenters will provide a COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 19] update and discuss strategies for healthcare facilities to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies such as eye protection, isolation gowns, facemasks, and N95 respirators." This length of this video is 59:10.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-03-25
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Update for Rural Partners and Communities on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response [video]
From the video description: "Dr. Jay Butler shared guidance with partners, public health practitioners, healthcare providers, and others working to protect the health of rural communities. He described what CDC knows at this point and responded to questions." The duration of this video is 59 minutes and 39 seconds.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-03-25
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[Letter from Bennie G. Thompson and Max Rose to Elizabeth Neumann Regarding DHS Efforts to Counter Extremism During COVID-19 Pandemic, March 24, 2020]
From the Document: "As the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] pandemic continues to upend American life in new and unpredictable ways, we seek an understanding of how DHS is preparing for and mitigating potential homeland security threats from bad actors, such as violent extremists in the United States and abroad, who may seek to exploit vulnerabilities stemming from this metastasizing crisis. To that end, we would like to know how the Office of Threat Prevention and Security Policy is coordinating DHS prevention efforts to account for the evolving threat landscape under the specter of COVID-19. Recent media reports have highlighted how white supremacist extremists across the world are discussing ways to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to advance violent ends, including, in some cases, accelerating society toward mass violence by sowing chaos. ISIS [Islamic State in Iraq and Syria], too, appears to be interested in exploiting the crisis: in the March 19, 2020, issue of the ISIS magazine 'Al-Naba'', an editorial urged adherents to leverage the pandemic to free prisoners from the 'prisons of the polytheists and the camps of humiliation,' arguing that Western countries' security forces are preoccupied with the crisis and their financial resources are being drained."
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Thompson, Bennie, 1948-; Rose, Max
2020-03-24
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Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act--Tax Relief for Individuals and Businesses [Updated March 24, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress is considering a number of proposals that seek to mitigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. One such proposal, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (S. 3548), was introduced in the Senate on March 19, 2020. On March 22, 2020, the Senate released an updated version of the CARES Act. A cloture vote on the motion to proceed on the amended version was rejected on March 22. Tax relief for individuals and businesses in the CARES Act includes [1] a one-time rebate to taxpayers; [2] modification of the tax treatment of certain retirement fund withdrawals and charitable contributions; [3] a delay of employer payroll taxes and taxes paid by certain corporations; and [4] a variety of changes to the tax treatment of business income and net operating losses."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Sherlock, Molly F.; Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.; Driessen, Grant A. . . .
2020-03-24
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Department of Justice Enforcement Actions Related to COVID-19
From the Memorandum: "As you know. we have seen an unfortunate array of criminal activity related to the ongoing COVID [coronavirus disease]-19 pandemic. Capitalizing on this crisis to reap illicit profits or otherwise preying on Americans is reprehensible and will not be tolerated. I am issuing this Memorandum to inform you of the sorts of schemes that have been reported. to identify certain authorities that I am directing you to consider deploying against these schemes, and to emphasize the importance of state and local coordination during this difficult time."
United States. Department of Justice
2020-03-24
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Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response [March 23, 2020]
From the Document: "The attached list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working construction, and performing management functions, among others. The industries they support represent, but are not necessarily limited to, medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Krebs, Christopher
2020-03-23
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 23, 2020
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 issue of MMWR contains the following: "Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks on Cruise Ships -- Worldwide, February-March 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html]
2020-03-23
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Response
From the Document: "[1] The federal government continues taking aggressive and proactive steps to address the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The health and safety of the American people is our top priority. [2] Under the direction of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, FEMA, HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] and our federal partners are working with state, local, tribal and territorial governments to execute a whole of government response to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and protect the public."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-03-23
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Briefing With Senior State Department Officials On COVID-19: Updates on Health Impact and Assistance for American Citizens Abroad
From Senior State Department Official One: "Good afternoon, everybody. [Senior State Department Official One] here. The COVID [coronavirus diease]-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global challenge, one that has affected a great number of Americans abroad. Here at the Department of State, we're rising to meet that challenge. We're working around the clock to bring U.S. citizens who are stranded overseas back home. Our consular officers posted overseas and our local - their local employee colleagues have been working night and day to help Americans get on flights. And, as [Moderator Two] just said, there's a 24-7 task force here in Washington supporting that effort. Though we stood up the task force last week, this was not our first effort to bring Americans home in response to this pandemic. We evacuated over 800 people from Wuhan and over 300 from the Diamond Princess in Japan. In date - in total to date, we have brought home more than 5,000 Americans from 17 countries, and we're bringing home thousands more in the coming days and weeks. This is truly an unprecedented effort to bring Americans from every region of the world in these rapidly changing conditions on the ground."
United States. Department of State
2020-03-23
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Iran: COVID-19 Disinformation Fact-Sheet
From the Facts: "[1] Iran's lack of transparency about its coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a catastrophic public health risk to the Iranian people, as well as to Iran's neighbors. [2] Instead of halting flights to China when the risk of contagion was clear, the regime threatened and imprisoned dozens of Iranians who told the truth about the outbreak. The regime encouraged large public gatherings to try to bolster its legitimacy, with no regard for the health risk to Iranian citizens. [3] The regime is hiding a significant amount of information about the coronavirus outbreak. It is likely far worse that the regime is admitting. This lack of transparency poses a significant health risk to the Iranian people, as well as to Iran's neighbors."
United States. Department of State
2020-03-23
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Majority Staff Report Examining Voting Options During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Introduction: "This is a moment of national emergency. One that comes with a unique set of challenges. Americans are being asked to stay home. Americans are being asked to socially distance themselves from their neighbors, colleagues, friends, and even family. Yet others are being asked to put themselves at risk to take care of the sick, protect their communities, and keep the supply chains running. Likewise, Congress must be prepared to do the urgent work of responding to the massive challenges we face as a country. That work must proceed thoughtfully, while keeping public safety at the forefront and at the same time preserving the integrity of the institution. Since the onset of the COVID [coronavirus]-19 pandemic, the Rules Committee has heard from Members who want to come back to Washington and vote on critical legislation, and Members who want to implement remote voting due to concerns Congress will be unable to pass legislation while also protecting the health of Members, staff, and the public. While these concerns are completely valid, implementing remote voting would raise serious security, logistical, and constitutional challenges."
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules
2020-03-23
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Prioritization of Survey Activities
From the Memorandum Summary: "[1] 'The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed' to taking critical steps to ensure America's health care facilities are prepared to respond to the threat of disease caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). [2] On Friday, March 13, 2020, the President declared a national emergency, which triggers the Secretary's ability to authorize waivers or modifications of certain requirements pursuant to section 1135 of the Social Security Act (the Act). Under section 1135(b)(5) of the Act, CMS is prioritizing surveys by authorizing modification of timetables and deadlines for the performance of certain required activities, delaying revisit surveys, and generally exercising enforcement discretion for three weeks."
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
2020-03-23
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Executive Order 13910: Preventing Hoarding of Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
From the Section 1: "In Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020 (Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) Outbreak), I declared a national emergency recognizing the threat that the novel (new) coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 poses to our Nation's healthcare systems. In recognizing the public health risk, I noted that on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the outbreak of COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) can be characterized as a pandemic. I also noted that while the Federal Government, along with State and local governments, have taken preventive and proactive measures to slow the spread of the virus and to treat those affected, the spread of COVID-19 within our Nation's communities threatens to strain our Nation's healthcare systems. To further deal with this threat, on March 18, 2020, I issued Executive Order 13909 (Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19), in which I delegated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) the prioritization and allocation authority under section 101 of the Act with respect to health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Trump, Donald, 1946-
2020-03-23
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Federal Reserve: Recent Actions in Response to COVID-19 [Updated March 23, 2020]
From the Document: "Coronavirus (COVID-19) has created significant economic disruption. In response, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has taken a number of steps to promote economic and financial stability involving the Fed's monetary policy and 'lender of last resort' roles. Some of these actions are intended to stimulate economic activity by reducing interest rates and others are intended to provide liquidity to financial markets so that firms have access to needed funding."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Labonte, Marc
2020-03-23
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COVID-19 Response Plan: Incident-specific Annex to the VHA High Consequence Infection (HCI) Base Plan
From the Executive Summary: "The primary goal of the operations plan is to protect Veterans and staff from acquiring COVID [coronavirus disease]-19 infection by leveraging technology, communications as well as using dedicated staff and space to care for COVID-19 patients. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will create a safe environment by implementing a system where one VA facility operates as two separate 'zones' (Standard and COVID-19) for inpatient care. VA will provide most outpatient care for Veterans through telehealth services as appropriate. This approach minimizes the risk of infection, supports expansion to meet an increasing need for COVID-19 services, and provides Veterans in routine VA care consistent access to VA care. The plan includes strategies to address a large number of COVID-19 cases to include alternative sites of care for Veterans with COVID-19."
United States. Veterans Health Administration
2020-03-23
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Justice Department Files Its First Enforcement Action Against COVID-19 Fraud: Federal Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Against Website Offering Fraudulent Coronavirus Vaccine
From the Webpage: "The Department of Justice announced today that it has taken its first action in federal court to combat fraud related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The enforcement action filed today in Austin against operators of a fraudulent website follows Attorney General William Barr's recent direction for the department to prioritize the detection, investigation, and prosecution of illegal conduct related to the pandemic."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs
2020-03-22
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COVID-19 HMIS Setup and Data Sharing Practices
From the Document: "This document offers information to help Continuum of Care (CoC) and HMIS [Homeless Management Information System] Leadership at the local level to create an action plan for recording and communicating data around COVID-19 and homelessness for their community. HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development] strongly recommends that CoCs work with their local Health Departments to blend their activities and actions with the plans the Health Departments are activating."
United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
2020-03-21
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Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Updated in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Purpose: "This technical assistance document provides information about Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act and pandemic planning in the workplace. This document was originally issued in 2009, during the spread of H1N1 [Influenza A virus subtype H1N1] virus, and has been re-issued on March 19, 2020, to incorporate updates regarding the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] pandemic. It identifies established ADA principles that are relevant to questions frequently asked about workplace pandemic planning."
United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
2020-03-21
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 20, 2020
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 issue of MMWR contains the following: "Global Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Progress Toward Meeting Global Targets -- Worldwide, 2018"; "Tuberculosis -- United States, 2019"; "Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths --United States, 2017-2018"; "Variation in Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription Dispensing by Age and Sex -- United States, 2008-2018"; "Delayed Identification of Infants Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing -- Minnesota, 2012-2016"; "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Surveillance and Containment Measures for the First 100 Patients with COVID-19 in Singapore -- January 2-February 29, 2020"; "Initial Investigation of Transmission of COVID-19 Among Crew Members During Quarantine of a Cruise Ship -- Yokohama, Japan, February 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.)
2020-03-20
