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• Dearth of infectious diseases physicians as the USA faces a global pandemic

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Emergency Management, Example, R-Lead, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Retention, Staffing, Staffing Model
  Creator: Hussaini, Syed M. Qasim.
  Subject: Personnel Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-07
  Description: The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed stark problems in the US health-care system. With more than half a million Americans infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the health-care…

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  Debriefing Tool

  Tags Follow up, Leadership Toolbox, R-PM, Recovery Tools, Staff Support, Staffing
  
  Subject: Training and Exercises
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-25
  Description: Leadership Toolbox, Recovery: Debrief Tool
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  Decedent Management Considerations for Confirmed or Suspected Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF)

  Tags Decedent Management, Infection Prevention and Control, R-DM, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Waste
  Creator: NETEC
  Subject: Decedent Management
  Item Type: Guide
  Date Last Updated: 2024-04-04
  Description: Viruses can be found in the bodies of patients who die of VHF and can be transmitted in postmortem care settings through direct handling of human remains without recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) and through splashes of blood or other…

• Decision model for optimizing respirator protection.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Harber, Philip, Brenda Merz, and Karen Chi.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 1999-05
  Description: Respirators are widely used for protection against inhaled toxins. The emphasis of research and implementation effort has evolved through several stages: the respirator device itself, use situation, respirator program factors under employer control,…

• Deconstructing the Treatment Effect of Remdesivir in the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial-1: Implications for Critical Care Resource Utilization

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Contingency and crisis capacities, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Outcomes, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, Therapeutics, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Fintzi J, Bonnett T, Sweeney DA, Huprikar NA, Ganesan A, Frank MG, McLellan SLF, Dodd LE, Tebas P, Mehta AK.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-08-19
  Description: The Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial-1 (ACTT-1) found that remdesivir therapy hastened recovery in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but the pathway for this improvement was not explored. We investigated how the dynamics of clinical progression…

  Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.

• Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators: Where Do We Stand?

  Tags Decontamination, Emergency Management, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, Respirator
  Creator: Lydia Cassorla
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-10-15
  Description: The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic created an extraordinary demand for N95 and similarly rated filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) that remain unmet due to limited stock, production constraints, and logistics. Interest in…
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  Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Respirators with Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor 1 to Address Worldwide Personal Protective Equipment Shortages During the 2 SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) Pandemic

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Decontamination, Mask, Masks, N95, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Antony Schwartz et al. Duke University,
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
  Description: The process uses vaporized hydrogen peroxide to kill germs without degrading the masks. Duke Regional Biocontainment Laboratory.

• Defining antigen-specific plasmablast and memory B cell subsets in human blood after viral infection or vaccination.

  Tags Antibodies, Ebola, Immunology, R-Res&Pub, Vaccine Study, Virology
  Creator: Ellebedy, A. H., K. J. Jackson, H. T. Kissick, H. I. Nakaya, C. W. Davis, K. M. Roskin, A. K. McElroy, C. M. Oshansky, R. Elbein, S. Thomas, G. M. Lyon, C. F. Spiropoulou, A. K. Mehta, P. G. Thomas, S. D. Boyd, and R. Ahmed
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-10
  Description: Antigen-specific B cells bifurcate into antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) and memory B cells (MBCs) after infection or vaccination.

• Defining the Epidemiology of Covid-19 — Studies Needed

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemiology, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Lipsitch, Marc, David L. Swerdlow, and Lyn Finelli.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-03-26
  Description: The epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (now called SARS-CoV-2, causing the disease Covid-19) has expanded from Wuhan throughout China and is being exported to a growing number of countries, some of which have seen onward transmission.

• Delayed Rise of Oral Fluid Antibodies, Elevated BMI, and Absence of Early Fever Correlate With Longer Time to SARS-CoV-2 RNA Clearance in a Longitudinally Sampled Cohort of COVID-19 Outpatients

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Antibodies, Comorbidity, Complications, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Outcomes, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Antar, Annukka A. R., Tong Yu, Nora Pisanic, Razvan Azamfirei, Jeffrey A. Tornheim, Diane M. Brown, Kate Kruczynski, Justin P. Hardick, Thelio Sewell, Minyoung Jang, Taylor Church, Samantha N. Walch, Carolyn Reuland, Vismaya S. Bachu, Kirsten…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2021-04-16
  Description: Sustained molecular detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA in the upper respiratory tract (URT) in mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is common. We sought to identify host and immune…