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Creator: Harvard University
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2018-09-03
Description: Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better. Open September 3, 2018 – September 1, 2020 -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
Description: Although pandemics occur infrequently, planning and preparing for a pandemic is important to ensure an effective response. Planning for and responding to a pandemic is complex and pandemics can affect everyone in a community. Therefore, public health… -
Creator: Qventus
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-13
Description: Predicting the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic On US Health System Capacity Qventus works with leading health systems across the country to improve operations and drive more efficient patient flow. Over recent weeks, they have been helping their… -
Creator: Tuite, Ashleigh R., Victoria Ng, Erin Rees, and David Fisman.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-19
Description: Italy is currently experiencing an epidemic of COVID-19 which emerged in the Lombardy region. -
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Washington State Department of Health and Northwest Healthcare Response Network
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-11
Description: In the event of a large-scale disaster, either a no-notice event such as a natural disaster or a prolonged situation such as a pandemic, there is the potential for an overwhelming number of critically ill or injured patients. In these situations,…