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Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vaccines
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Blog
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Education, Social Dimensions, Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Vulnerable Populations, Disability/Disabled Persons, Natural Disasters
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: Website from the U.S. Government Accountability Office which provides information about the federal response to COVID-19 and oversight of related spending. Resources include numerous reports, recommendations, and suspected fraud reporting.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Website
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Social Dimensions, Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Government directive
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 44-page report examines the workforce planning for National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) responders to assist with public health emergencies, and training provided to these responders. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responded to COVID-19, in part, by deploying responders enrolled in the NDMS. These individuals, such as doctors and nurses, generally work outside the federal government and are federal employees used intermittently.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Workforce
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page document provides information about social distancing, the still-developing science behind it, and how it saves lives by slowing disease transmission and reducing the load on the health care system in a pandemic such as COVID-19. The document discusses social distancing opportunities, challenges, and policy context and questions.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page document provides information about infectious disease models, which can help guide policy decisions, such as how to allocate health care resources in response to COVID-19. Interpreting models requires understanding their purpose, limitations, and assumptions.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document provides information about COVID-19 vaccine development, including the technology involved, opportunities, challenges, and policy context and questions. As of May 15, 2020, there are more than 110 COVID-19 vaccines in development globally; of those, at least three are being developed in the United States with federal funding.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vaccines, Biomedical Research
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page Spotlight looks at the three types of FDA-authorized COVID-19 tests. Molecular and antigen tests help diagnose active infections. Molecular tests look for the virus's genetic material, while antigen tests look for unique parts of the virus. Results can be used for quarantines, routing supplies, and other uses. Serology tests look for antibodies in the blood to help determine prior exposure.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious disease outbreaks have raised concern about the nation's ability to prevent, respond to, or mitigate potential public health emergencies. Congress allowed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to partner with a private, nonprofit entity to work on this problem. This 11-page report describes the status of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)'s implementation of the innovation partner authority.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 403-page report examines key actions the federal government has taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving lessons learned relevant to the nation's response to pandemics, among other things. It discusses sources of federal funding, including the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 31-page Congressional testimony describes how the outbreak of COVID-19 has called greater attention to the United States' reliance on foreign drug manufacturers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began to postpone almost all inspections of foreign manufacturing establishments in March 2020 due to COVID-19, and the testimony explains that this lack of foreign inspections removes a critical source of information about the quality of drugs manufactured for the U.S. market.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 46-page report describes, among other objectives, key characteristics of federal contracting obligations awarded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal agencies awarded $17.8 billion in contracts as of mid-June 2020 for critical goods and services supporting responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Contracts often play a key role in federal emergency response.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Social Dimensions
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 49-page technology assessment examines collection methods and limitations of COVID-19 surveillance data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); approaches for analyzing COVID-19 data; and uses and limitations of forecast modeling for understanding COVID-19.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Adapting Technology
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page document explains herd immunity, and how increasing the immunity of a population to an infectious disease like COVID-19 can slow the spread of infection and protect those most vulnerable. However, with limited information about important aspects of COVID-19, there are challenges to understanding the implications of herd immunity in the current pandemic.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 16-page Congressional testimony discusses how COVID-19 is only the latest communicable disease threat to raise public health concerns regarding the spread of contagion through air travel. It provides information on the U.S. aviation system's preparedness to respond to communicable disease threats, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s management of its R&D portfolio, including the extent to which disease transmission on aircraft and at airports has been the focus of FAA research.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page document explains how contact tracing can help reduce transmission rates for infectious diseases like COVID-19 by identifying and notifying people who may have been exposed. Contact tracing apps, notably those using proximity tracing, could expedite such efforts. However, there are challenges, including accuracy, adoption rates, and privacy concerns about these apps.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Adapting Technology
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 20-page Congressional testimony addresses the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic, including efforts to acquire and distribute critical medical supplies. It discusses GAO's recent report on the COVID-19 pandemic response and past work on other disasters, which identified potential challenges FEMA faces in responding to the pandemic and any future nationally significant biological incidents.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 371-page report updates the GAO's oversight of federal actions to support public health, individuals, and the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and details evolving lessons learned relevant to the nation's response to pandemics. It provides 16 recommendations for federal agencies.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Social Dimensions
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 44-page report examines federal spending on the COVID-19 response; indicators for monitoring public health and the economy; and the status of matters for congressional consideration and recommendations from GAO's June 2020 report.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Social Dimensions
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 14-page report summarizes a study that examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected schools recovering from recent natural disasters; the support the U.S. Department of Education has provided to help schools recover from recent natural disasters and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected schools' use of these resources; and how recovery efforts from recent natural disasters were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Social Dimensions, Education, Vulnerable Populations, Children, Psychological Preparedness and Responses, Natural Disasters
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 15-page report discusses findings that, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most nursing homes were cited for infection prevention and control deficiencies (82 percent of those surveyed from 2013-2017). About half of these homes had persistent problems and were cited across multiple years.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Facilities, Caregiving, Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Vulnerable Populations, Pre-existing Medical Conditions, Elderly
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