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Creator: Public Health - Seattle & King County
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2009-09-29
Description: A severe influenza pandemic will have profound impact on the health care delivery system. Shortages of life-sustaining medical resources, including hospital beds, trained health care providers, intensive care unit resources, medical supplies,… -
Creator: Daugherty Biddison, E. Lee, Ruth Faden, Howard S. Gwon, Darren P. Mareiniss, Alan C. Regenberg, Monica Schoch-Spana, Jack Schwartz, and Eric S. Toner.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2019-04
Description: The threat of a catastrophic public health emergency causing life-threatening illness or injury on a massive scale has prompted extensive federal, state, and local preparedness efforts. Modeling studies suggest that an influenza pandemic similar to… -
Creator: New York State Department of Health and New York State Task Force
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2015-11-25
Description: The guidelines provide direction for the distribution of ventilators in the event of a severe pandemic, when there are insufficient ventilators to treat everyone who needs them. The guidelines balance the goal of saving the most lives with important… -
Creator: Truog, Robert D., Christine Mitchell, and George Q. Daley.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to severe shortages of many essential goods and services, from hand sanitizers and N-95 masks to ICU beds and ventilators. Although rationing is not unprecedented, never before has the American public been faced with the… -
Creator: Emanuel, Ezekiel J., Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: Covid-19 is officially a pandemic. It is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death, and it has reached at least 124 countries and territories. -
Creator: To, Kelvin Kai-Wang, Owen Tak-Yin Tsang, Wai-Shing Leung, Anthony Raymond Tam, Tak-Chiu Wu, David Christopher Lung, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip, Jian-Piao Cai, Jacky Man-Chun Chan, Thomas Shiu-Hong Chik, Daphne Pui-Ling Lau, Chris Yau-Chung Choi, Lin-Lei…
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks. -
Creator: Chen, Yu, and Lanjuan Li.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 100 000 patients globally. -
Creator: Koo, Joel R., Alex R. Cook, Minah Park, Yinxiaohe Sun, Haoyang Sun, Jue Tao Lim, Clarence Tam, and Borame L. Dickens.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: Since the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec 31, 2019, 68 imported cases and 175 locally acquired infections have been reported in Singapore. -
Creator: Lewnard, Joseph A., and Nathan C. Lo.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-23
Description: On Dec 31, 2019, the WHO China Country Office received notice of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province. -
Creator: Mills, Devin, Delbert A. Harnish, Caryn Lawrence, Megan Sandoval-Powers, and Brian K. Heimbuch.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2018-04-17
Description: Safe and effective decontamination and reuse of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) has the potential to significantly extend FFR holdings, mitigating a potential shortage due to an influenza pandemic or other pandemic events.