COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

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.
Last updated June 16, 2020.

Information from the CDC about testing, clinical care, infection control, PPE, and potential exposure at work. Includes tools for assessing surges in hospital utilization as well. New and updated guidance regularly added.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services information and guidance for clinicians and health care organizations related to COVID-19, including telehealth, reimbursement, and reopening facilities.

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).

Publications and tools providing technical guidance for health care workers on COVID-19 from the World Health Organization.

Free evidence-based resources for health professionals and health organisations from the Joanna Briggs Institute to inform and guide healthcare decision making with a focus on infection prevention and control measures, and mental health and well-being.

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

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's links on guidance, planning handbook, considerations, grants, training, information on telework/telemedicine and FAQs.

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

Case Network's "virtual patient" case presented as a simulated patient experience . Reviews coronavirus differential diagnosis, important diagnostic tests, management including infectious disease precautions in the hospital, and home discharge protocols.

From CDC, includes summary of recent changes and updates.Information on clinical presentation, clinical course, diagnostic testing, lab and radiographic findings, clinical management and treatment, investigational therapies.

Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports and early releases on COVID-19.

Medicaid's Frequently Asked Questions for State Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Agencies about emergency resources and coronavirus.

Recordings, slides, summaries, and transcripts of CDC's Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity teleconferences/webinars, including the latest recommendations for conserving PPE, working with high-risk patients, and managing long-term care facilities.

Local innovations solicited and hosted by Rural Health Information Hub

University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine provides evidence synthesis and dissemination to help in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Page updated regularly.

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's March 26, 2020 technical report, with links to related publications

Links for clinicians, health educators, health promoters, those in direct healthcare settings, those in health plan or state settings. Also information for faith-based communities, higher risk groups, rural communities. caregivers, Medicare beneficiaries,

5/7/20 from UF Food & Drug Admin

5/27/20 brief from The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action 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.

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.

7/9/20 CDC's automated generation and transmission of case reports from the electronic health record (EHR) to public health agencies for review and action

7/8/20 update CDC

6/18/20 4th ed in Englilsh from Steinhauser Verlag. Links to "daily top 10 papers" and ">1,000 full-text links to scientific articles"

Resources, recorded events, videos, news, webinar series

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.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's projections for morbidity, mortality, and hospital resource use for COVID-19.

April 2020 publication by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

American Public Health Association and National Academy of Medicine cosponsored series of webinars 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.

March 2020 Findings Brief from NC (North Carolina) Rural Health Research Program

March 25, 2020 article on health system capacity, health insurance coverage and access by state.

University of California at San Francisco's SIREN (Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network. Includes articles (sorted by date) connecting the COVID-19 pandemic with social determinants and health equity. Sponsor s a collaboration between 211counts.org and the Washington University in St. Louis Health Communication Research Laboratory that tracks rises in social needs across the US and resources for health care teams..

Jointly produced by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Undated, posted by 4/15/20.

Temple University Law School Center for Public Health Law Research's Policy Surveillance Program

STATE POLICY EVALUATION TOOL

4/22/20 from United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Brief annotations of recent projects in the Health Services Research Projects (HSRProj) database of the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine

5/29/20 National Academy for State Health Policy map of the 50 states' contact tracing program models, workforce, lead agencies, funding, and technology. Tabs on the left enable you to view states’ approaches by category.

5/24/20 American Journal of Infection Control brief report/article in press

5/27/20 Stateline-PEW report on 16 states in which black residents constitute a larger percentage of the population than the national rate of 13% and any concrete actions they may be taking to stem COVID cases.

CDC's predictions and data re: hospitalizations, mortality, surges by state and nationally dated May 26-28, 2020.

5/18/20 report from Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research on food insecurity in April and May vs. March among Black, White and Hispanic urban, suburban and rural households with and without children and by income and employment status and nationally and by state (each of the above parameters analyzed separately)

American Public Health Association's "up to date information from trusted, credible sources"

5/29/20 Nature article

6/23/20 1 hr 13 minute webinar from The Consortium of Universities for Global Health

Excerpt from 5/28/30 Brookings Institute report from Brookings experts offering "ideas to help policymakers protect lives and save livelihoods in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic."

9-16-20, 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.

9-1-20 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 100-page discussion of past allocation efforts and framework for equitable access for COVID-19 vaccine.