Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health 
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Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 5/6/2020.
This 10-page technical note offers guidance and information to practitioners and policymakers on child labor issues during and after COVID-19, and what actions can be taken. The COVID-19 pandemic could push millions of children into child labor and makes child labor an imminent concern.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Reporting COVID-19 Laboratory Data
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/6/2020.
This web page outlines reporting requirements for laboratories for collecting and sending COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 laboratory testing data. It also details how to report using standard terminology.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Clinical Questions about COVID-19: Questions and Answers
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/6/2020.
This web page for healthcare professionals, updated on May 6, 2020, provides answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19. Topics are COVID-19 Risk; Transmission; Testing, Diagnosis, and Notification; Treatment and Management; Obstetrical Care; Drugs and Investigational Therapies; Patients with Asthma; Patients with Liver Disease; and Waste Management.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Healthcare Personnel and First Responders: How to Cope with Stress and Build Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/5/2020.
This web page discusses how providing care to others during the COVID-19 pandemic can lead to stress, anxiety, fear, and other strong emotions. It provides guidance on how to recognize what stress looks like, take steps to build your resilience and cope with stress, and know where to go if you need help.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Community-Based Health Care, Including Outreach and Campaigns, in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/5/2020.
This 43-page guidance, published with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and UNICEF, addresses the specific role of community-based health care in the COVID-19 pandemic context and outlines the adaptations needed to keep people safe, maintain continuity of essential services, and ensure an effective response to COVID-19. It is intended for decision-makers and managers at the national and subnational levels and complements a range of other guidance, including that on priority public health interventions, facility-based care, and...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Promoting Health Equity, Gender and Ethnic Equality, and Human Rights in COVID-19 Responses: Key Considerations
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 5/5/2020.
The aim of this 15-page document is to function as a “first port of call” for national health policymakers to support their efforts to integrate and enhance equity, gender, ethnicity, and human rights considerations and approaches into measures responding to COVID-19. It also provides links to sources of related information and guidelines.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: PhysiolGuard ECG-QT Analysis System
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 5/5/2020.
This four-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the PhysiolGuard ECG-QT Analysis System when used in the hospital setting for remote monitoring and detection of changes in the QT interval of an electrocardiogram (ECG) in general care (i.e., not in the intensive care unit) patients who are 18 years of age or older and are undergoing treatment for COVID-19 drugs that can prolong QT intervals and may cause life threatening arrhythmias (e.g., hydroxychloroquine or chlor...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers: FTD SARS-CoV-2
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 5/5/2020.
This three-page fact sheet informs healthcare providers of the significant known and potential risks and benefits of the emergency use of the FTD SARS-CoV-2 test, which received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on May 5, 2020. The FTD SARS-CoV-2 test is authorized for use on respiratory specimens collected from individuals who are suspected of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by their healthcare provider.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
National Action Plan for Expanding and Adapting the Healthcare System for the Duration of the COVID Pandemic
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 5/5/2020.
This 24-page report offers answers and recommendations related to the urgent near-term need to address key challenges faced now by healthcare facilities and healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include the personal protective equipment supply chain, sustaining and augmenting the healthcare workforce, protecting emergency medical services personnel from infectious diseases, and preparing for the next pandemic.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Current Evidence, Options for Scale-Up and an Assessment of Resources Needed
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/5/2020.
This nine-page document outlines a number of resource measures to use in contract tracing for COVID-19, including the use of well-trained non-public-health staff and volunteers; repurposing existing resources such as call centers; reducing the intensity of contact follow-up; and using new technologies such as contact management software and mobile apps.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Building Emergency Planning Scenarios for Viral Pandemics
Source: Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction [University College London] (UCL IRDR). Published: 5/4/2020.
The purpose of this 41-page report is to provide a systematic, if incomplete, record of the issues connected with the COVID-19 pandemic in order to improve the basis for future emergency planning. Like all large disasters, COVID-19 involves cascading consequences. These need to be factored into future emergency planning scenarios.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Personal Protective Equipment: NIOSH PPE Tracker App
Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] (CDC NIOSH). Published: 5/4/2020.
This mobile app can help healthcare and non-healthcare systems track their personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory. Facilities can use the app to calculate their average PPE consumption rate or “burn rate.” The app estimates how many days a PPE supply will last given current inventory levels and PPE burn rate.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
COVID-19: Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the Home
Source: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Published: 5/4/2020.
This seven-page report examines issues that children may face as countries implement lockdowns and stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19. Protective prevention and response strategies are then outlined with the goal of strengthening the protection of children in all types of homes. The report is published with End Violence Against Children, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Health and Economic Impacts of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Address COVID-19: A Decision Support Tool for State and Local Policymakers
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/4/2020.
This 96-page document describes the interdisciplinary and multisectoral approach RAND researchers used to develop the COVID-19 Decision Support Tool, which is designed to fill the need for a comprehensive and systematic assessment of potential public health interventions to address COVID-19 and when to relax them.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Using Mobility to Estimate the Transmission Intensity of COVID-19 in Italy: A Subnational Analysis with Future Scenarios: Report 20
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 5/4/2020.
This 35-page report summarizes analysis that modeled the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission using data on average mobility in Italy. It estimates that the average reproduction number (a measure of transmission intensity) is currently below one for all Italian regions, and significantly so for the majority of the regions.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
