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Creator: Pitzer, Virginia E., and Ted Cohen.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-17
Description: Studies of household members and close contacts of individuals infected with a communicable disease such as COVID-19 are a key source of information for infectious disease epidemiologists. -
Creator: MacIntyre, Chandini Raina.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-16
Description: Amid the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the study by Adam Kucharski and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reminds us that all available control measures should be used together to drive the effective reproduction number (Reff)… -
Creator: Kucharski, Adam J., Petra Klepac, Andrew J. K. Conlan, Stephen M. Kissler, Maria L. Tang, Hannah Fry, Julia R. Gog, W. John Edmunds, Jon C. Emery, Graham Medley, James D. Munday, Timothy W. Russell, Quentin J. Leclerc, Charlie Diamond, Simon R.…
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-16
Description: The isolation of symptomatic cases and tracing of contacts has been used as an early COVID-19 containment measure in many countries, with additional physical distancing measures also introduced as outbreaks have grown. To maintain control of… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Webinar
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-05
Description: This webinar will describe the process for effective environmental cleaning and disinfection practices for COVID in the settings of acute care, long term care and skilled nursing facilities, identify strategies for waste and linen management,…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.
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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: 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: Jordan, Rachel E., and Peymane Adab.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-15
Description: Despite the daily updates on number of cases, hospital admissions, and deaths around the world and the increasing number of hospital-based case series, some of the fundamental information about how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2… -
Creator: Zhang, Jiao, Shoucai Wu, and Lingzhong Xu.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-04-21
Description: Following a containment phase of two months, China has transitioned to the mitigation phase. However, China still faces the risk of COVID-19 spreading due to not only to sporadic new cases and imported cases but also asymptomatic carriers. -
Creator: Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-15
Description: In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a standing committee of experts to help inform OSTP on critical science and policy issues related… -
Creator: Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
Description: In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a standing committee of experts to help inform OSTP on critical science and policy issues related…