Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience: Massive Scale Testing, Tracing, and Supported Isolation (TTSI) as the Path to Pandemic Resilience for a Free Society
Source: Harvard University. Published: 4/20/2020. This 56-page document is a comprehensive operational roadmap for mobilizing and reopening the U.S. economy in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. It lays out how a massive scale-up of testing, paired with contact tracing and supported isolation, can rebuild trust in our personal safety and re-mobilize the U.S. economy. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

What is the Ebola Virus?
Source: Council on Foreign Relations. Published: 4/20/2020. This resource, updated on April 20, 2020, provides background information about the Ebola virus, where it has occurred, and how it is contained. It discusses how response partners have continued to struggle to control the disease, despite the use of an experimental vaccine, as a new outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2018 grew to become the second largest ever. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

How Our Facility is Keeping Patients Safe from COVID-19
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/20/2020. Dialysis facilities can use this one-page fact sheet to communicate the steps they are taking to protect their patients and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Keeping Patients on Dialysis Safe
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 4/20/2020. This two-page fact sheet provides practical information for patients on dialysis to protect themselves from COVID-19, and about how dialysis facilities may change. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

WHO Ad-Hoc Online Consultation on Managing the COVID-19 Infodemic
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/20/2020. On April 7-8, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) Information Network for Epidemics (EPI-WIN) held a two-day global online consultation on managing the COVID-19 infodemic, which is an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it. This page provides meeting notes, videos and presentations, and summaries of all talks at the meeting. (Video or Multimedia) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

What Tests Could Potentially Be Used for the Screening, Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19 and What Are Their Advantages and Disadvantages?
This report analyzes these tests, which are largely based on four different techniques that are detailed. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Elastomeric Respirators: Strategies During Conventional and Surge Demand Situations
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/20/2020. This web page offers guidance for the use of reusable elastomeric particulate respirators to provide respiratory protection to healthcare practitioners (HCP) against pathogens as a component of a formally developed and implemented written respiratory protection program. It is based on what is currently known about the transmission and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 Response Resources
Source: Harvard University. Published: 4/20/2020. This web page from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University provides materials from the COVID-19 Response Initiative, including a Pandemic Resilience Roadmap, white papers, and COVID-19 resources from friends and colleagues. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Healthcare Capacity Building: Alternative Care Sites and Federal Medical Stations
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency [Department of Homeland Security] (FEMA). Published: 4/20/2020. This two-page COVID-19 Pandemic Response Fact Sheet details why all alternative care site (ACS) options need to be considered for increasing healthcare capacity and capability during this pandemic, and provides a table that is a Quick Reference to Understand ACS and Federal Medical Stations(FMS). (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: PhoenixDx ® 2019-CoV–Trax Management Services Inc.
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/20/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the PhoenixDx ® 2019-CoV, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on April 20, 2020. The PhoenixDx® 2019-CoV is authorized for use on respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Fact Sheet for Healthcare Personnel: Sterilucent Sterilization System for Decontaminating Compatible N95 Respirators
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/20/2020. This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare personnel of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of decontaminated, compatible N95 respirators. These compatible N95 respirators have been decontaminated using the Sterilucent HC 80TT Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) Sterilizer. Decontaminated N95 respirators that have been decontaminated using the Sterilucent Sterilization System are authorized for single-user reuse by healthcare personnel in a healthcare setting during the COVID-19 pandemic. (PDF) (Source: Disaster...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Operational Considerations for Personal Protective Equipment in the Context of Global Supply Shortages for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Non-US Healthcare Settings
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/20/2020. This web page provides specific operational considerations that healthcare settings and healthcare authorities can review in the context of global supply shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), to help with decision-making in order to provide needed surge capacity during the COVID-19 response. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Ethics and COVID-19: Resource Allocation and Priority-Setting
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/20/2020. This five-page policy brief answers a number of questions about the ethics of setting priorities for the allocation of resources during times of scarcity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such decisions may include access to hospitals, ventilators, vaccines, and medicines. The document provides a high-level ethical framework that can be used to guide decision-making, and complements WHO ’s technical guidance. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 Testing and Reporting by Laboratories: Q & A
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/20/2020. This web page, updated on April 20, 2020, provides frequently asked questions about COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) testing at laboratories. Topics are For All Laboratories: Accessing Laboratory Testing; For All Laboratories: Data and Reporting; For All Laboratories: Test Developers; For All Laboratories: Serology; For Public Health Laboratories: Ordering Supplies; and For Clinical Laboratories: Ordering Supplies. (Text) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

International Randomised Trial of Candidate Vaccines Against COVID-19
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 4/19/2020. This 12-page document describes a large, international, randomized controlled clinical trial that is designed to enable an expeditious, agile, and concurrent evaluation of the benefits and risks of multiple candidate preventive vaccines against COVID-19 at international sites with sufficient COVID-19 attack rates. (PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news