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Contact Tracing Instructions for Non-Healthcare Settings
From the Document: "Contact tracing is the systematic identification and monitoring of all persons who might have been exposed to a person diagnosed with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Because these persons are at risk of developing disease, contacts should self-monitor and may be monitored by the local health department for 14 days (the maximum incubation period) from the last date they had exposure to a confirmed case. For COVID-19 we are only conducting contact tracing for contacts of confirmed cases (individuals who have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19). We will not do contact tracing for persons under investigation. All contact tracing documents for COVID-19 refer to close contacts of confirmed cases. The goals of contact tracing are to: 1. Rapidly identify all potential contacts, 2. Ensure appropriate medical evaluation and care if the contact becomes symptomatic, and 3. Ensure immediate isolation precautions are implemented if the contact becomes symptomatic."
North Carolina. Division of Public Health
2020-03-17
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City Manager Executive Order 2020-1: COVID-19 Internal Operations
From the Introduction: "The City of Bloomington has been closely monitoring reports and recommendations from our local, state, and national health agencies regarding COVID-19 (commonly known as Coronavirus) and continues to take proactive action to prepare for the well-being of our residents and employees. Accordingly, in accordance with the City's emergency action plan and pursuant to the authority of the City Code, this Executive Order is effective immediately. This executive order is designed to provide concise, clear and effective directions for the internal operational handling of the COVID-19 National Emergency."
Bloomington (Ill.)
2020-03-17
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Home Care for Patients with COVID-19 Presenting with Mild Symptoms and Management of Their Contacts
From the Background: "WHO [World Health Organization] has developed this interim guidance to meet the need for recommendations on safe home care for patients with suspected COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] who present with mild symptoms a and on public health measures related to the management of their contacts. [...] This rapid advice has been updated with the latest information and is intended to guide public health and infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals, health care managers and health care workers (HCWs) when addressing issues related to home care for patients with suspected COVID-19 who present with mild symptoms and when managing their contacts. This guidance is based on evidence about COVID-19 and the feasibility of implementing IPC measures at home. For the purpose of this document, 'caregivers' refers to parents, spouses, and other family members or friends without formal health care training."
World Health Organization
2020-03-17
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Procurement Under Grants Conducted Under Emergency or Exigent Circumstances for COVID-19
From the Document: "Subsequent to the President's March 13, 2020 Nationwide Emergency Declaration for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is issuing the attached Fact Sheet addressing procurements made during periods of exigent or emergency circumstances. FEMA recognizes that noncompetitive procurements may be necessary to save lives, to protect property and public health, and to ensure public safety, as well as to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe. The attached Fact Sheet provides answers and guidance surrounding the need for such measures."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-03-17
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Caring for PALTC Residents with Dementia During the COVID-19 Outbreak
From the Document: "As we all work to provide the best care we can to our patients and residents and prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have developed some specific guidance on the care of residents with dementia. Given impairments with memory, language, learned motor skills, and perception, residents with dementia are profoundly impacted by the changes in daily routine, environmental changes, group activity restrictions, lack of familiar visitors, increased use of personal protective equipment, staffing shortages, and the increased emotional tone of the long-term care setting. There are no easy answers, but here are a few suggestions that may help."
Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine
2020-03-17
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Coronavirus & Retail Food Establishments: Supply Chain Issues & Conservation Strategies
From the Document: "Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread across the globe and here in Washington state. This pandemic is negatively affecting both the availability and cost of a wide variety of products used in food establishments. These impacts are expected to last for months. Take the time now to check your inventories, secure them on your premises to prevent theft, and prepare alternate plans for food supply and service."
Washington (State). Department of Health
2020-03-17
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COVID-19: Recommended Preventative Practices and FAQs for Faith-Based and Community Leaders
From the Document: "Faith-based and community leaders continue to be valuable sources of comfort and support for their members and communities during times of distress, including the growing presence of COVID-19 in different parts of the country. As such, these leaders have the unique ability to address potential concerns, fears, and anxieties regarding COVID-19. Additionally, by reiterating simple hygienic precautions and practices, these leaders can broadly promote helpful information, managing fear and stigma, and restoring a sense of calm into the lives of those in their care. Such leaders are also poised ― through their acts of service and community relationships ― to reach vulnerable populations with essential information and assistance. These acts of service are an essential part of the safety net for the vulnerable in their communities."
Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (United States. Department of Health and Human Services)
2020-03-17?
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Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19, Notice of Declaration
From the Summary: "The Secretary is issuing this Declaration pursuant to section 319F-3 of the Public Health Service Act to provide liability immunity for activities related to medical countermeasures against COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
2020-03-17
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International Actions Against the COVID-19 Pandemic and Chinese Response
From the Document: "The original Chinese version of this article was published on WeChat Official Account named Huashan Infection. The China-CEE Institute is authorized to publish the English version. [...] This week has witnessed a big mess in the international efforts to fight against the COVID19 [coronavirus disease] pandemic since its outbreak. [...] More than one month has passed, the process of countries in their efforts to fight the pandemic is like the Olympic Marathon, where no much difference can be noticed when they started, but the difference is widened gradually at a later time."
China-CEE Institute
Wenhong, Zhang; Qiaoling, Ruan
2020-03-17
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ASPR TRACIE Technical Assistance Request: Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) for COVID-19
From the Document: "ASPR TRACIE [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange] received a request for information on Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease]. The requestor specifically asked, 'If there is a Crisis Standard of Care document, please send me a link or a pdf immediately to aid in our scenario planning.' [...] The ASPR TRACIE Team reviewed material available on CSC and conferred with our Crisis Standards of Care subject matter experts (SMEs). We highlight resources and their comments in this document."
United States. Technical Resources, Assistance Center and Information Exchange; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
2020-03-17
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Maryland State Police COVID-19 Response Guidelines [presentation]
This presentation from the Maryland State Police on "COVID [coronavirus disease]-19 Response Information" contains the follow sections: Supply Distribution and Use, Other Approved Products, Facility Decontamination, PPE [personal protective equipment] Response Guidelines, Exposure Reporting Procedures, I.T. [information technology] Product Decontamination, and Executive Orders.
Maryland State Police
2020-03-17
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Atlantic Police Academy, COVID-19 Pandemic: Continuity of Critical Operations Plan
From the Summary: "This document outlines the responsibilities and procedures to ensure the continuity of operations for the delivery of the Police Science (Cadet) program at the Atlantic Police Academy during the COVID [coronavirus disease]-19 pandemic. This document considers the best practices of other Police Cadet Training facilities in Canada, and the recommendations and practices from Health Canada regarding hygiene with the goal to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection or outbreak."
Atlantic Police Academy
2020-03-17
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COVID-19: Interim Health Guidance for Private and Commercial Air Operators and Crew Members
From the Purpose: "The purpose of this Civil Aviation Safety Alert (CASA) is to provide interim health guidance from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Transport Canada (TC) for private and commercial air operators and their crew members to protect and inform crew members, passengers and the general public regarding COVID-19 [coronavirus disease]. PHAC and TC are providing this health guidance to protect against exposure and reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 on board aircraft or through day-to-day operational requirements."
Canada. Transport Canada
2020-03-17
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COVID-19 Best Practice: Social Distancing Guidelines on Shift
From the Document: "This document provides guidance to reduce the spread of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] among members. All members should practice this guidance during all work-related activities."
King County Fire Chiefs Association
2020-03-17
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COVID-19 Best Practice: Transport Decision Making Guide
This document from the King County Fire Chiefs Association provides a best practices flowchart for transporting patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.
King County Fire Chiefs Association
2020-03-17
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Estimating the Cost of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
From the Executive Summary: "Given the continued worsening of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and around the world, Congress is negotiating a deal on an additional emergency response package that is expected to cost $183.8 billion, according to estimates by the American Action Forum. If an important restriction on firm sizes were to be eliminated, the total cost could exceed $350 billion. This package includes four key provisions: 1. Emergency paid sick leave and child care leave, which could cost between $40.9 billion and $118.4 billion, and possibly up to $282.5 billion if restrictions on firm size were eliminated; 2. Expanded Unemployment Insurance benefits, for which the government has allotted $1 billion; 3. Increased Medicaid funding and free testing for everyone: The federal government will cover a larger share of Medicaid expenses, which could increase costs by $56.3 billion, and another $1.3 billion is provided for health care services and testing costs; 4. Additional nutritional assistance: $1.25 billion in additional funding is provided for the Women, Infants, and Children program, The Emergency Food Assistance Program, and programs to provide meals for the elderly; loosened restrictions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will allow for additional benefits to be provided at an estimated cost of $6.8 billion; states with schools experiencing closures of more than five days will also be able to provide benefits to cover the costs of school lunches that otherwise would have been provided."
American Action Forum
Soto, Isabel; Hayes, Tara O'Neill
2020-03-17
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Tariffs Disrupted Medical Supplies Critical to US Coronavirus Fight
From the Website: "US tariffs on imports from China have threatened to cause shortages of vital medical products used to fight the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Disrupted supply chains in the medical sector could limit US access to thermometers, CT [computed tomography] systems, patient monitors, and other essential items."
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Brown, Chad
2020-03-17
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COVID-19 Best Practice: Self-Screening Guidelines
From the Document: "1. Recommend one dedicated entrance at stations and administration buildings. Post agency specific guidelines on how to proceed into the facility. 2. Self-screening to be conducted at the beginning of the workday, reevaluated mid-workday, and final screening prior to end of workday. 3. Employee should conduct self-screening upon entry of building, prior to entering populated areas. 4. No need for documentation, this is simply a 'sick' or 'not sick' evaluation tool. 5. Employees with one or more of these signs or symptoms are considered to have a communicable illness, should not be at work, and need to communicate through the proper channels. 6. Employees should follow agency specific Return to Work policies. 7. Recommend tracking sick leave and/or paid admin leave within staffing software for potential reimbursement."
King County Fire Chiefs Association
2020-03-17
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Iran's Coronavirus Economic Meltdown
From the Document: "As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies, Iran is in economic meltdown. Its international isolation is ever more severe, as can be seen in the sharp decline in flights landing in Iran's two busiest airports. All Iran experts know how hard it is to get reliable data on that country. The regime obscures everything from basic macroeconomic figures to government expenditures and allocations of how much oil and gas Iran sells. Figuring out the full extent of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) epidemic in Iran is as difficult as determining accurate figures on anything else there."
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center)
Frisch, Hillel
2020-03-17
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How to Consider Protection, Gender and Inclusion in the Response to COVID-19
From the Document: "Like all crises, the COVID [coronavirus disease] outbreak will affect people differently based on their sex, gender and other factors, including age, disability, sexual orientation, health status, legal status, ethnicity, and other aspects of the person. Emergencies exacerbate existing gender inequalities, and the incidence of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), violence against children can be expected to increase. Marginalized groups are highly likely to [be] more adversely affected by the outbreak and the consequences of the response."
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
2020-03-17
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Population-Based Age-Stratified Seroepidemiological Investigation Protocol for COVID-19 Virus Infection
From the Objectives: "There are two primary objectives for this seroepidemiological investigation: 1. To determine the extent of infection in the general population and age-specific infection cumulative incidence, as determined by seropositivity; 2. To determine the fraction of asymptomatic or subclinical infections. Seroepidemiological investigations provide the opportunity to evaluate secondary objectives, such as, but not limited to: 1. To determine risk factors for infection by comparing the exposures of infected and noninfected individuals; 2. To more accurately determine the case fatality ratio."
World Health Organization
2020-03-17
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Information for PACE Organizations Regarding Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
From the Document: "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is committed to the protection of individuals from the spread of infectious disease. In light of the recent spread of COVID-19, we are providing information to PACE [Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly] Organizations (POs) to help control and prevent the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. [...] Per current CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, health care providers should put into practice strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19, such as reviewing infection control practices with all personnel, implementing proper hand and respiratory hygiene; monitoring participants, personnel, and visitors for fever and respiratory symptoms; using alcohol-based hand sanitizers; and keeping all individuals including visitors, staff, and residents at home when they are ill. POs should implement sick leave policies for personnel that are non-punitive, flexible, and consistent with public health guidance."
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
2020-03-17
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COVID-19 Prioritization of Diagnostic Testing
From the Document: "On March 4, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidance expanded testing to a wider group of symptomatic patients, dependent on the physician's judgment of need for testing, clinical course of infection, local epidemiology of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] infections and results of testing for other causes of respiratory illness (e.g., influenza). FDA has also published these Frequently Asked Questions, which provide useful information on diagnostic testing for COVID-19. Given current limited availability of near-patient, or point-of-care,testing, IDSA [Infectious Diseases Society of America] has developed recommendations for diagnostic testing prioritization. These recommendations will likely change as testing becomes more widely available or as new information becomes available. IDSA continues to advocate for policies and investments to expand capacity to testing."
Infectious Diseases Society of America
2020-03-17
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Keep an Eye on North Korean Cyber-Crime as the COVID-19 Spreads
From the Document: "The Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] outbreak continues to cause tumult in the global economy, with countries like South Korea and Italy reporting a rapid increase in diagnoses and many companies requesting that employees work from home to keep the virus from spreading. In North Korea's case, it has had its Chinese borders closed for over a month, long before the rest of the world began to react to the virus. Even if it were, as its state media claims, coronavirus-free, how long could their economy sustain total global isolation? By sealing their border with their largest economic partner, North Korea has effectively placed itself at the mercy of UN sanctions. [...] To ensure that their country can continue to function while they weather the global crisis, North Korea may very likely double down on cybercrime. While smuggling and other forms of illicit trading require the physical moving of goods and/or services, cybercrime can be committed from anywhere, even a sealed North Korea."
Pacific Forum, CSIS
Wiesel, Todd
2020-03-17
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Interim Guidance: Scaling-Up COVID-19 Outbreak Readiness and Response Operations in Humanitarian Situations, Including Camps and Camp-Like Settings
From the Objectives: "This Interim Guidance addresses specific needs and considerations required in humanitarian situations, including camps and camp-like settings and the surrounding host communities, in scaling-up readiness and response operations for the COVID-19 outbreak through effective multi-sectoral partnership. The Guidance is developed in alignment with the WHO [World Health Organization] COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan [...], and WHO Technical guidance for COVID-19 [...], particularly in relation to the following objectives: 1. Limit human-to-human transmission, including reducing secondary infections among close contacts and healthcare workers, preventing transmission amplification events, strengthening health facilities; 2. Identify and provide optimised care for infected patients early; 3. Communicate critical risk and information to all communities, and counter misinformation; 4. Ensure protection remains central to the response and through multi-sectoral partnerships, the detection of protection challenges and monitoring of protection needs to provide response to identified protection risks; [and] 5. Minimize social and economic impact through multi-sectoral partnerships. This Interim Guidance is intended for field coordinators, camp managers and public health personnel, as well as national and local governments and the wider humanitarian community working in humanitarian situations, including camps and camp-like settings, who are involved in the decision making and implementation of multi-sectorial COVID19 outbreak readiness and response activities - the Guidance is therefore relevant for all Humanitarian Clusters and their partners."
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
2020-03-17
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Ara Bilgilendirme Notu: COVID-19 Salgının Ruh Sağlığı ve Psikososyal Etkenler Açısından Ele Alınması
"Bu bilgilendirme notunda, 2019 yeni koronavirüs (COVID-19) salgınına ilişkin temel ruh sağlığı ve psikososyal destek (MHPSS) hususları özetlenmektedir. Not, son olarak 17 Mart 2020 tarihinde güncellenmiştir."
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
2020-03-17
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Nota Informativa: Gestire La Salute Mentale E Gli Aspetti Psicosociali Dell'epidemia Di COVID-19 -Versione 1.5
"Questa nota informativa sintetizza le considerazioni chiave in tema di salute mentale e supporto psicosociale (MHPSS) collegate alla nuova epidemia di coronavirus (COVID-19). Ultimo aggiornamento: 17 Marzo 2020."
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
2020-03-17
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Achtergronddocument: Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg En Psychosociale Steun Tijdens De COVID-19 Uitbraak- Versie 1.5
"Dit achtergronddocument bevat een samenvatting van de belangrijkste overwegingen rondom Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg en Psychosociale Steun (Engelse afkorting: MHPSS) tijdens de uitbraak van het nieuwe coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). Deze samenvatting is voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 17 Maart 2020."
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
2020-03-17
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report - 57
From the Highlights: "[1] 8 new countries/territories/areas [...] in have reported cases of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in the past 24 hours. [2] As the on-going COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop, WHO [World Health Organization] is committed to working together with the travel, transport and tourism sectors on emergency preparedness and response. [...] [3] OpenWHO is an interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering free online courses to improve the response to health emergencies. [...] The OpenWHO team is continuing to work with WHO Country Offices, public health institutes and educational entities who have offered voluntary translation support to help localize the response efforts. Resources in the pipeline include courses in Hindi and Macedonian."
World Health Organization
2020-03-17
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'Third Inning': Next Steps for Congress in Addressing the Coronavirus
From the Document: "The pandemic associated with Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has significantly disrupted daily life in virtually every country over the past few months. As the number of reported cases in the United States has increased, Congress has passed an emergency appropriations bill, and the House has passed a bill providing tax relief for paid leave as well as additional resources for social programs aimed at alleviating the spread of the disease and any economic consequences of the epidemic. In addition, the Federal Reserve has taken a number of actions to prevent the coronavirus epidemic from leading to a broader economic breakdown."
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Burton, David R.; Fishpaw, Marie; Michel, Norbert J. . . .
2020-03-17
