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  APHL Biosafety Checklist

  Tags Checklist, Ebola, Example, Lab, Laboratory, R-Lab
  Creator: Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Checklist
  Date Last Updated: 2015-04
  Description: APHL A Biosafety Checklist: Developing A Culture of Biosafety

  Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.

• Radiographic imaging for patients with contagious infectious diseases: how to acquire chest radiographs of patients infected with the Ebola virus

  Tags Clinical Care Guidelines, Ebola, Infection Prevention and Control, Patient Care, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Auffermann, W. F., C. S. Kraft, S. Vanairsdale, G. M. Lyon, 3rd and S. Tridandapani
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2015-01-01
  Description: Contagious infectious diseases add a new dimension to radiology and pose many unanswered questions. 

• ICU and Ventilator Mortality Among Critically Ill Adults With Coronavirus Disease 2019

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Critical Care, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Auld, Sara C., Mark Caridi-Scheible, James M. Blum, Chad Robichaux, Colleen Kraft, Jesse T. Jacob, Craig S. Jabaley, David Carpenter, Roberta Kaplow, Alfonso C. Hernandez-Romieu, Max W. Adelman, Greg S. Martin, Craig M. Coopersmith, David J. Murphy,…
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-05-26
  Description: Observational cohort study of patients admitted from March 6, 2020, to April 17, 2020. To determine mortality rates among adults with critical illness from coronavirus disease 2019.

• Inpatient COVID-19 Outcomes in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients Compared to Non-Solid Organ Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Cohort

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Comorbidity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Outcomes, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Avery, R. K., T. P. Chiang, K. A. Marr, D. C. Brennan, A. S. Sait, B. T. Garibaldi, P. Shah, D. Ostrander, S. Mehta Steinke, N. Permpalung, W. Cochran, M. A. Makary, J. Garonzik-Wang, D. L. Segev, and A. B. Massie.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-12-07
  Description: Immunosuppression and comorbidities might place solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients at higher risk from COVID-19, as suggested by recent case series. We compared 45 SOT vs 2427 non-SOT patients who were admitted with COVID-19 to our health-care…
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  Identification of acutely sick people and facial cues of sickness

  Tags Example, Patient Care, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Staff Support, Staffing
  Creator: Axelsson, John, Tina Sundelin, Mats J. Olsson, Kimmo Sorjonen, Charlotte Axelsson, Julie Lasselin, and Mats Lekander.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-01-03
  Description: Detection and avoidance of sick individuals have been proposed as essential components in a behavioural defence against disease, limiting the risk of contamination.

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• Shedding of Viable SARS-CoV-2 after Immunosuppressive Therapy for Cancer

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Case Study, Clinical Care, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-Res&Pub, R-T&C
  Creator: Aydillo, Teresa, Ana S. Gonzalez-Reiche, Sadaf Aslam, Adriana van de Guchte, Zenab Khan, Ajay Obla, Jayeeta Dutta, Harm van Bakel, Judith Aberg, Adolfo García-Sastre, Gunjan Shah, Tobias Hohl, Genovefa Papanicolaou, Miguel-Angel Perales, Kent…
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-12-01
  Description: Detection of replication-competent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the most reliable indicator of contagiousness.

• Metagenomic sequencing to detect respiratory viruses in persons under investigation for COVID-19

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Laboratory Testing, Person Under Investigation (PUI), R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen, SARS-CoV-2
  Creator: Babiker, A., H. L. Bradley, V. D. Stittleburg, J. M. Ingersoll, A. Key, C. S. Kraft, J. J. Waggoner, and A. Piantadosi.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-10-16
  Description: Broad testing for respiratory viruses among persons under investigation (PUIs) for SARS-CoV-2 has been performed inconsistently, limiting our understanding of alternative viral infections and co-infections in these patients. RNA metagenomic…

• Association between mobility patterns and COVID-19 transmission in the USA: a mathematical modelling study

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Badr, Hamada S., Hongru Du, Maximilian Marshall, Ensheng Dong, Marietta M. Squire, and Lauren M. Gardner.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-07-01
  Description: Within 4 months of COVID-19 first being reported in the USA, it spread to every state and to more than 90% of all counties. During this period, the US COVID-19 response was highly decentralised, with stay-at-home directives issued by state and local…

• Successful Elimination of Covid-19 Transmission in New Zealand

  Tags 2019-nCoV, Airborne Transmission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Droplet Transmission, Emergency Management, International Response, Public Health, R-IPC, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Baker, Michael G., Nick Wilson, and Andrew Anglemyer.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2020-08-20
  Description: Soon after initial descriptions of an outbreak in Wuhan, China, were shared, reports in late January 2020 (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30260-9/fulltext. opens in new tab) confirmed that Covid-19 was almost…

• Healthcare Workers’ Strategies for Doffing Personal Protective Equipment

  Tags Donning and Doffing, Gloves, Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Baloh, Jure, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Kimberly Dukes, Jaqueline Pereira da Silva, Hugh P. Salehi, Melissa Ward, Emily E. Chasco, Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, and Loreen Herwaldt.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: Personal protective equipment (PPE) helps protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from pathogens and prevents cross-contamination.