COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

Updated 1/14/22. This quick reference highlights key COVID-19 Clinical Care information for healthcare providers and provides selected links to full guidance and research for easier CDC web navigation.

Updated 2/1/22. These Treatment Guidelines have been developed to inform clinicians how to care for patients with COVID-19. Because clinical information about the optimal management of COVID-19 is evolving quickly, these Guidelines will be updated frequently as published data and other authoritative information becomes available.

Updated 12/27/21. CDC COVID-19 home page for health care providers, including links to resources about clinical care topics, infection control topics, care outside of hospital settings, and logistical considerations such as staffing and supply. Includes numbers and links for hotlines/emails for additional support.

Updated 1/19/22. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services information about federal regulations related to COVID-19, including the latest rulings on vaccination mandates, telehealth, reimbursement/waivers, and facility safety procedures.

Updated 1/31/22. CMS regulations about COVID-19 vaccination and treatment authorizations and reimbursement for Medicare recipients.

Updated 2/8/22. FDA's home page of COVID-19 resources, including the latest FDA news, information about PPE, EUA guidelines, and FDA regulated products relevant to COVID-19.

Updated 2/10/22. From the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, this page highlights resources identified or developed to address current response and recovery operations to novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).

Updates on approved COVID-19 treatment options, including FDA approval status and federally-supplied treatments. From Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response.

Updated 12/21/21. From National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Links to information on transmission, therapeutics & vaccines. Includes info on MERS and SARS as well as COV-19.

Updated 2/9/22. Technical guidance on a variety of COVID-19 related issues, clinical care; critical preparedness, readiness, and response; essential health services; infection prevention and control; laboratory and diagnosis; mass gatherings; scientific briefs; vaccinations; and much more.

Updated 2/9/22. American Medical Association portal of COVID-19 resources, including the latest video update webinars, vaccine CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes, ethics resources, and more.

Updated 1/27/22. Association of American Medical Colleges monitors guidance from federal, state, and local health agencies as it relates to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Find information and updates from the AAMC on this global health concern.

Updated 9/9/21. Free evidence-based resources for health professionals and health organizations from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Core focus of collection: infection prevention and control. Updated regularly, aligns with WHO guidance. Can be used in conjunction with local policy requirements as set out by government agencies.

American College of Emergency Physicians. Regularly updated field guide, clinical resources, federal guidance, daily news updates, wellness resources and more.

Updated 1/13/22. Recordings, slides, summaries, and transcripts of CDC's Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity teleconferences/webinars, including the latest recommendations on MISC, updated isolation and quarantine guidelines, oral antivirals, vaccines for children and boosters, and long COVID.

Updated 1/19/22. University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine provides rapid evidence reviews and data analysis relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

Updated 2/10/22. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Situation update cases worldwide and Europe, deaths in Europe (mapping visualizations). Latest outputs on risk assessments, guidance and technical reports, infographics, posters and videos. Latest evidence, laboratory support, Q&A.

Updated 12/15/21. CDC 's portal to health equity resources and strategies, including links to CDC's COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy, guiding principles for inclusive communication, and resources for specific populations such as agricultural workers, people with disabilities or experiencing homelessness, tribal communities, the incarcerated, rural communities, drug users, and those with limited English proficiency.

Reviewed 7/8/21. Guide describing activities to address COVID-19 in rural communities. Includes an emergency preparedness guide for communication planning tools to reach rural communities, and a vaccination section for resources and information focused on rural access to COVID-19 vaccination.

Updated 11/17/21. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) has compiled the following federal resources on COVID-19 to assist our partners who work with those who are at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19—such as older adults, those with underlying medical conditions, racial and ethnic minorities, rural communities, people with disabilities, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and individuals with limited English proficiency.

Reviewed 9/13/2021. Direct Service Providers include personal care attendants, direct support professionals, paraprofessionals, therapists, and others who provide a wide variety of home and community-based, health-related services that support people with disabilities, often in close and consistent contact with the patient.

Published December 2020. Human Impact Partners developed this Equity Lens Tool in partnership with Big Cities Health Coalition to support health departments in more directly and routinely addressing equity in COVID-19 planning, response, and recovery decision making.

Updated 12/24/2020. University of California at San Francisco's Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN). Includes links to COVID-19 health equity, policy, and social risk impact data, research question bank, funding opportunities, and articles.

Updated 3/1/2021. This National Academies consensus study report offers an overarching framework for vaccine allocation to assist policy makers in the domestic and global health communities. Built on widely accepted foundational principles and recognizing the distinctive characteristics of COVID-19, this report's recommendations address the commitments needed to implement equitable allocation policies for COVID-19 vaccine.

Published 9/21. British Red Cross. This inter-agency guidance document aims to supplement the COVAX demand creation package for COVID-19 vaccines with key considerations for humanitarian contexts and marginalized populations with specific access and communication needs.

Updated 2/2/22. Kaiser Family Foundation short article and bar graph showing % of vaccinations, cases and deaths by Black, Hispanic, Asian and White ethnicities.

Updated 1/21/22. Includes evaluation guidelines and return-to-work criteria based on risk level of exposure, vaccination status, and symptomology.

ASPR TRACIE, in collaboration with the COVID-19 Healthcare Resilience Working Group, hosted a webinar on September 24, 2020 to discuss COVID-19: Optimizing Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment and Supplies. ASPR TRACIE is the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response's Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange. The presentation and link to the webinar recording are now available. The title page of the presentation includes a link to the recording. Please note: you will need to enter your name and email address to access the recording.

Updated 4/9/21. CDC. This summary is intended to help healthcare facilities optimize supplies of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators when there is limited supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategies are categorized in a continuum of care and further organized according to the hierarchy of controls, as defined below.

Updated 2/9/21. Food & Drug Administration. Virtual Town Hall series for SARS-CoV-2 test developers to help answer technical questions about the development and validation of tests for SARS-CoV-2s.

Updated 2/4/22. Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports related to COVID-19. Brief weekly podcast series and early releases highlighting the latest scientific information from the COVID-19 response.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's proceedings of an August 2020 virtual workshop on vaccine access and confidence, focusing especially on health systems, research opportunities, communication strategies, and policies that could be considered to address access, perception, attitudes, and behaviors toward vaccination.

Updated 2/9/22. The National Association of County and City Health Officials has gathered and developed resources to address the needs of environmental public health staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes resources on education/childcare, extreme weather, food safety, indoor environments, wastewater surveillance, and health equity.

Updated 12/17/21. To inform the public health response to COVID-19, the Office of the Chief Medical Officer for CDC’s COVID-19 emergency response collaborates with the CDC Office of Library Science and the CDC COVID-19 response Chief Health Equity Officer Unit to create the COVID-19 Science Update. Search by keyword for articles that have been summarized in the COVID-19 Science Update

1/14/22. This collection is a compilation of National Academies resources related to coronaviruses. These publications explore prevention, response, and recovery from pandemic infectious disease.

Updated 2/4/22. A webinar series cosponsored by the American Public Health Association and National Academy of Medicine on on the state of the science around the COVID outbreak, including two on benefit-risk analysis of social/physical distancing strategies, including for vulnerable populations; strategies for mitigating mental health impacts; and available science to guide eventual relaxation of measures.

Final Update 1/7/22. While no longer being updated, the 6th edition of this text is a comprehensive introduction and reference to COVID-related issues, with thousands of links to research as it emerged during the pandemic.

American Public Health Association's compilation of resources to help individuals, business owners and communities make the most informed decisions possible. COVIDGuidance.org organizes rapidly updated guidance and recommendations from trusted sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and Johns Hopkins University.

Updated 1/26/22. American Journal of Public Health's COVID-19 Resource Repository. Includes links to APHA's COVID-19 guidance, as well as other resources and news articles.

Updated 2/4/22. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (affiliated with the University of Washington). This page contains summaries of the results for 230+ locations, special analyses, explanations of the methods, and other tools to help understand IHME's COVID-19 mortality, vaccination, hospital resources use, and infections/testing projections.

Updated 9/13/21. Kaiser Family Foundation Tableau visualizations of vaccine administration by state and race/ethnicity and long-term care facility COVID-19 deaths as a proportion of all state COVID deaths

Updated 7/6/2021. Big Cites Health Coalition's collection of resource of webinars, public service announcements, press releases, stay at home orders and media coverage.

Updated 10/2020. World Health Organization's 28-page framework document provides key considerations for the planning and implementation of national and subnational strategies to maintain and reinvigorate public support to prevent COVID-19.

No longer updated as of 10/1/2020. State Policy Evaluation Tool. Use this tool to: Review updated public health and economic data by state, model the social and economic effects of changing intervention levels, evaluate best-practice guidelines for interventions, and compare other policy considerations for interventions.

Updated 9/23/2021. Commonwealth Fund research, analysis, and evidence-based policy options related to COVID-19. Focused on at-risk and marginalized populations, including communities of color and people with low income. Topics include health disparities, paying for the vaccine, Medicare/Medicaid, pre-existing conditions, outpatient care, Safety-Net providers, home health providers, etc.

Updated 7/20/20. Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Asia and International Food Policy Research Institute compendium of information on Far and Middle Eastern and Russian national policies on policies from public gathering bans to testing to subsidies to health care worker hiring to mandated grace periods for utilities payments to school closings to importation of PPE.

Updated 9/23/20. Urban Institute brief on possible elationship between a state's general tendency to preempt municipal laws and the extent of policymakers’ responses to COVID-19

Updated 3/10/2021. The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Technical Note Volume 2, Annexes and other resources to support child protection practitioners and policy makers in putting the child’s safety and well-being at the centre of their COVID-19 pandemic response.

Published 09/2020. The authors of this Perspective examine liability and compensation issues as they relate to the future distribution and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Updated 9/24/20. Congressional Research Service 47-page report discusses how data privacy and security (together, data protection) law applies to a public health authority’s use of digital contact tracing tools, the role of technology in assisting with contact tracing, and potential privacy concerns. Appendix A provides Digital Contact Tracing Apps By State.

Updated 10/29/2020, Version 1.0, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (57 pages) for state, territorial, and local public health programs and their partners on how to plan and operationalize a vaccination response to COVID-19 within their jurisdictions.

Updated 10/20/20. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) 7-page report examines the legal challenges being made against COVID-19 orders and looks at some of the early litigation results and emerging issues.

Updated 4/14/2021. Temple University Law School Center for Public Health Law Research's Policy Surveillance Program