COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

Updated 8/28/24. 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 3/1/24. 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.

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 9/10/24. CMS regulations about COVID-19 vaccination and treatment authorizations and reimbursement for Medicare recipients.

Updated 3/10/25. 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.

This Topic Collection contains resources that can help medical emergency planners and health care professionals: learn more about managing patients experiencing illness from novel respiratory pathogens; understand infection control principles in healthcare and community settings; and benefit from lessons learned from past outbreaks.

Updated 7/31/24. 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.

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 4/10/25. American Medical Association portal of COVID-19 resources, including the latest video update webinars, vaccine CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes, ethics resources, and more.

The AAMC launched VaccineVoices in 2021 to provide our member institutions with practical tools and guidance as we all worked to increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines in communities and among health care personnel.

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.

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

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.

Collection of over 600 Rural Health Information Hub resources related to COVID-19.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) has compiled federal resources on COVID-19 for consumers on how the ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency impacts health insurance coverage. Information sheets are available in multiple languages.

Archived in CDC Stacks. 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.

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.

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.

Published 4/24/23. Kaiser Family Foundation analysis examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by race and ethnicity through the lens of premature mortality, using the measures of premature mortality rate and years of life lost among excess deaths that occurred during the pandemic.

Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports related to COVID-19.

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 3/31/22. 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.

The global response to COVID-19 has expanded what is possible for rapid pandemic response in several areas, including vaccine research and development, more resilient supply chains, public health interventions and the need for global coordination. The reports in this collection explore how these unprecedented actions could inform and advance future pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccine preparedness efforts.

Brought to you by the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine, this webinar series ran from March 2020 to January 2022 exploring the state of the science surrounding the current outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States and globally, with a focus on the emerging evidence on how to best mitigate its impact.

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.

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.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (affiliated with the University of Washington). Originally a COVID-19 pandemic forecasting resource for hospitals and policymakers, now estimates cases, deaths, and disability due to COVID-19 as part of the Global Burden of Disease study.

This tracker provides the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, as well as the rate of daily COVID-19 cases and deaths by country, income, region, and globally. Updated weekly as new data are released. As of March 7, 2023, all data on COVID-19 cases and deaths are drawn from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard.

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

Published 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 10/3/2024. 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.

AKADEMIYA2063 has developed a broad data, analytics and communications agenda on the impacts of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic among African countries.

A collection of Urban Institute research on COVID-19 public health and economic stability, health and economic equity and resilience, and pandemic economic preparedness.

Discover key resources and tools to support child protection efforts during infectious disease outbreaks, such as COVID-19, through guidance notes, webinars, research findings, and training materials designed to help practitioners adapt programming and protect children during infectious disease outbreaks.

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.