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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Zeidel, Mark L., Carolyn Kirk, and Ben Linville-Engler.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-21
Description: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced health care providers to dramatically increase their use of swabs, protective gear, ventilators, and other medical devices. This rapid increase in demand, coupled with the destabilizing effect of the crisis on society…Conservation strategies: This resource contains recommendations facilitating conservation of equipment and supplies during contingency (expected shortages) and crisis (known shortages) capacities and should not be applied as guidance when conventional capacities are available.
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: Anfinrud, Philip, Valentyn Stadnytskyi, Christina E. Bax, and Adriaan Bax.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-21
Description: Aerosols and droplets generated during speech have been implicated in the person-to-person transmission of viruses, and there is current interest in understanding the mechanisms responsible for the spread of Covid-19 by these means.A response to this…