COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus)

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

4-page delineation of newly-available blanket waivers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

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 American College of Emergency Physicians. Archive of Clinical Alerts updated daily, with links to webinars, EMTALA requirements and implications and strategic plan for ED management.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Research Letter released 3/13/20 suggesting testing from multiple sites may improve sensitivity.

World Health Organization' s interim guidanced dated 28 January 2020

CDC's 3/28/20 health alert

From CDC.Includes criteria to guide evaluation and lab testing for COVID-19, recommendations for reporting, lab testing and specimen collection,

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.

Medicaid's Frequently Asked Questions for State Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Agencies

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.

From Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response,including the homeless, congregate centers, older adults, women and children, those with chronic diseases and people with access and functional needs

3/29/20 scientific brief from the World Health Organization

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's projections for hospital resource use for COVID-19, assuming full social distancing through May 2020

Weekly reports and early releases.

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.

Webpage created by federal agencies and their partners to help healthcare providers, caregivers, and the general population prepare for and manage the negative behavioral effects that can accompany a public health emergency.

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

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

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

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