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Creator: McMichael, Temet M., Dustin W. Currie, Shauna Clark, Sargis Pogosjans, Meagan Kay, Noah G. Schwartz, James Lewis, Atar Baer, Vance Kawakami, Margaret D. Lukoff, Jessica Ferro, Claire Brostrom-Smith, Thomas D. Rea, Michael R. Sayre, Francis X. Riedo,…
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-21
Description: After identification on February 28, 2020, of a confirmed case of Covid-19 in a skilled nursing facility in King County, Washington, Public Health–Seattle and King County, aided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, launched a case… -
Creator: Peak, Corey M., Rebecca Kahn, Yonatan H. Grad, Lauren M. Childs, Ruoran Li, Marc Lipsitch, and Caroline O. Buckee.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-20
Description: Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19.A response to this article was published:Bauch, Chris T., and Madhur Anand. 2020.… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-20
Description: This webinar will describe best practices used to help with COVID-19 operational response planning, identify innovative approaches to tracking and mapping COVID-19 cases including required resources and discuss how the Incident Command System (ICS)… -
Creator: Marie A de Perio, Chad H Dowell, Lisa J Delaney, Lewis J Radonovich, David T Kuhar, Neil Gupta, Anita Patel, Satish K Pillai, Maryann D'Alessandro
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: N95 respirators are personal protective equipment most often used to control exposures to infections transmitted via the airborne route. Supplies of N95 respirators can become depleted during pandemics or when otherwise in high demand. In this paper,… -
Creator: Ortega, Rafael, Mauricio Gonzalez, Ala Nozari, and Robert Canelli.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: Given the threat of coronavirus disease 2019, or Covid-19, it is important to emphasize the use of proper precautions for infection control in health care settings. -
Creator: Mello, Michelle M., Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements. -
Creator: Solomon, Mildred Z., Matthew K. Wynia, and Lawrence O. Gostin.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: On March 28, 2020, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened investigations into recently released critical care crisis triage protocols. -
Creator: Solomon, Matthew D., Edward J. McNulty, Jamal S. Rana, Thomas K. Leong, Catherine Lee, Sue-Hee Sung, Andrew P. Ambrosy, Stephen Sidney, and Alan S. Go.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-19
Description: During the Covid-19 pandemic, reports have suggested a decrease in the number of patients presenting to hospitals because of emergency conditions such as acute myocardial infarction. -
Creator: Goldhaber-Fiebert, Sara N., Jeremy A. Greene, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-18
Description: In the COVID-19 pandemic airway procedures like intubation, noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, and high-flow nasal cannula are widely considered as potential risks for nosocomial transmission, and risks of infection are recognized even from… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-18
Description: Information regarding damaged or degraded head straps on previously stockpiled NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators