Title: Interim Guidance: Prevention, Screening, and Management of Possible COVID-19 Cases in Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers

URL: https://sf-hrc.org/sites/default/files/COVID19-HD-Guidance-FINAL-03.15.2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Public Health Guidance for School Year 2020-2021 - Texas Education Agency

URL: https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/covid/SY-20-21-Public-Health-Guidance.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Transit through Canada including to and from Alaska – Travel restrictions in Canada – Travel.gc.ca

URL: https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/border

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Misinformation

URL: https://wmc.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/COVID-19/COVID-19%20Misinformation%20Position%20Statement.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Unaccompanied Children’s Program Field Guidance | The Administration for Children and Families

URL: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/policy-guidance/uc-program-field-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Alabama

URL: https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19/assets/adph-covid19-vaccination-plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Parent's Guide to Alabama's Roadmap to Reopening Schools | Alabama State Department of Education

URL: https://www.alsde.edu/Documents/RoadmapParentFAQJune262020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: SB590 as engrossed on 04-19-2021 | State of Arkansas 93rd General Assembly Regular Session, 2021

URL: https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2021R%2FPublic%2F&file=1002.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2021%2F2021R

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers

URL: https://www.ashe.org/system/files/media/file/2020/04/CMS%20Covid-19-emergency-declaration-waivers%2004292020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is empowered to take proactive steps through 1135 waivers and rapidly expand efforts against COVID-19. This 36-page document describes the blanket waivers that are in effect.

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Title: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Case Report Form

URL: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/2019-nCoV-case-report-form-en.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Healthcare professionals should refer to this five-page 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) case report form to aid with the detection and reporting of COVID-19 in Canada. Its requests include case information, symptoms, pre-existing conditions and risk factors, exposures, and clinical evaluations, complications, and diagnoses.

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Title: Federal, Provincial, Territorial Public Health Response Plan for Ongoing Management of COVID-19 - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/guidance-documents/federal-provincial-territorial-public-health-response-plan-ongoing-management-covid-19.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this plan is to provide federal, provincial, and territorial public health officials; Indigenous partners; health system partners; and other stakeholders with a common forward planning approach for ongoing management of COVID-19 in Canada. It promotes a long-term approach that covers immediate planning imperatives for the fall/winter 2020 period and thereafter until population herd immunity in one form or another is sufficient to bring the pandemic activity in Canada to an end.

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Title: Aircraft medical evacuation COVID-19 infection prevention and control recommendations from remote and isolated communities in Canada’s North - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/guidance-documents/medical-evacuation-aircraft-patients-suspected-confirmed-covid-19-remote-isolated-communities-canada-north.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this web page is to provide infection prevention and control guidance for the medical evacuation of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 by air, based on current PHAC COVID-19 guidance and the PHAC Routine Practices and Additional Precautions guidance.

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Title: Summary of evidence supporting COVID-19 public health measures - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/assumptions.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In order to develop technical guidance to support federal/provincial/territorial public health authorities and front-line clinicians in health care settings to respond to the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, the assumptions on this web page were taken to develop interim guidance documents. These assumptions are based on currently available scientific evidence and expert opinion and are subject to change as new information on transmissibility and epidemiology becomes available.

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Title: Reducing COVID-19 risk in community settings: A tool for operators

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/guidance-schools-childcare-programs.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance provides information for both public and private institutions providing K-12 education programs in the classroom setting. It takes into consideration the diverse needs of population groups based on vulnerability, ethnicity/culture, disability, developmental status, and other socioeconomic and demographic factors.

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Title: Updated: Public health management of cases and contacts associated with COVID-19 - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/interim-guidance-cases-contacts.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance is for federal/provincial/territorial (F/P/T) public health authorities (PHA) in the event that a case of human illness caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is suspected or confirmed within their jurisdictions. The strategy outlined in this guidance is containment (i.e., to reduce opportunities for transmission to contacts in the community) and is based on the assumption that the virus is primarily spread while the case is symptomatic.

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Title: Reducing COVID-19 risk in community settings: A tool for operators

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/mass-gatherings-risk-assesment.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Individual and community-based measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Canada - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/public-health-measures-mitigate-covid-19.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Infection prevention and control for COVID-19: Interim guidance for acute healthcare settings - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/technical-brief-masking-face-shields-full-duration-shifts-acute-healthcare-settings.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Website detailing the potential benefit of healthcare workers wearing a mask for the full duration of their shift to prevent transmission of unrecognized COVID-19 infection to their patients or other healthcare workers (i.e., for use primarily as source control).

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Title: Biosafety advisory: SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/biosafety-directives-advisories-notifications/sars-cov-2.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This biosafety advisory is being provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support local risk assessments (LRAs) and assist clinical, diagnostic, and research laboratories in implementing proper biosafety procedures to handle samples that may contain SARS-CoV-2.

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Title: Interim Guidance for Conserving and Extending Filtering Facepiece Respirator Supply in Non-Healthcare Sectors

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/conserving-respirator-supply.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page offers strategies to conserve, extend, and respond to shortages in the supply of NIOSH-approved filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) used in non-healthcare worksites such as manufacturing and construction. NIOSH-approved FFRs protect users by filtering particles out of the air the user is breathing and include several classes of filters, including N95s. The guidance is intended for use during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency.

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Title: Interim Guidance for Homeless Service Providers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/homeless-shelters/plan-prepare-respond.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed these recommendations for homeless service providers about how to protect their staff, clients, and guests during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) outbreak. The Before, During, and After sections of this guidance offer suggested strategies to help homeless service providers plan, prepare, and respond to this emerging public health threat.

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Title: CDC Interim Guidance for General Population Disaster Shelters During the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/Guidance-for-Gen-Pop-Disaster-Shelters-COVID19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides interim guidance to reduce the risk of introducing and transmitting COVID-19 in general population disaster shelters before, during, or after a disaster. It should be used in conjunction with existing shelter operation and management plans, procedures, guidance, resources, and systems, and is not a substitute for shelter planning and preparedness activities.

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Title: Considerations for School Closure

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/considerations-for-school-closure.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Laboratory Data Reporting: CARES Act Section 18115

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/lab/HHS-Laboratory-Reporting-Guidance-508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides guidance that specifies what additional data must be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by laboratories along with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test results. The guidance standardizes reporting to ensure that public health officials have access to comprehensive and nearly real-time data to inform decision-making in their response to COVID-19.

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Title: COVID-19 Case Investigator Training: Guidance, Resources, and Sample Training Plan

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/php/case-investigator-sample-training-plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document contains a sample case investigator training plan, including training topics that may be helpful for state and local public health jurisdictions to consider when designing their own training plan for COVID-19 case investigators. Each heading represents the learning objective for that section.

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Title: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training: Guidance, Resources, and Sample Training Plan

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/php/contact-tracer-sample-training-plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This course contains a sample training plan, including training topics, that may be helpful for state and local public health jurisdictions to consider when designing their own training plan for COVID-19 contact tracers. Each heading in the training plan represents the learning objective for that section. After completing all training required by their jurisdiction, learners should be able to conduct contact tracing according to the established protocol.

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Title: Hand Hygiene Recommendations | CDC

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/infection-control/hcp-hand-sanitizer.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Public Health Determination Regarding an Exception for Accompanied Noncitizen Children from the Order Suspending the Right to Introduce Certain Persons from Countries Where a Quarantinable Communicable Disease Exists

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/pdf/NoticeUnaccompaniedChildren.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Directrices Del Presidente Sobre El Coronavirus Pal Los Estados Unidos

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/pdfs/Coronavirus-guidelines_SPANISH.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: COVID-19 guidelines in Spanish, provided by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

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Title: Framework for Conditional Sailing Order: Phased Approach

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/pdf/CSO-Phased-Approach-Infographic-p.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: CDC Guidance for Creating a Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Community Intervention Implementation Plan and Summary

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/readiness/00_docs/Community_Intervention_Plan_Guidance_4_12_2020_FINAL_508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page guidance aids recipients in meeting the requirements to develop a COVID-19 community intervention implementation plan consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on prevention, management, and recovery from COVID-19 that describes how the jurisdictions will achieve mitigation goals, and to provide a summary of the community intervention implementation plan in Grant Solutions within 60 days of the Notice of Award.

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Title: Interim Advice for Coronavirus: Coding Encounters Related to COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/ICD-10-CM-Official-Coding-Gudance-Interim-Advice-coronavirus-feb-20-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this three-page document is to provide official diagnosis coding guidance for health care encounters and deaths related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), previously named 2019-nCoV. The ICD-10-CM codes provided in this document are intended to provide information on the coding of encounters related to coronavirus. Other codes for conditions unrelated to coronavirus may be required to fully code these scenarios.

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Title: Implementation of Sec. 2695 of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 | NIOSH | CDC

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2020-119/default.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page document updates the List of Potentially Life-Threatening Infectious Diseases to which Emergency Response Employees May be Exposed to include the addition of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, and the definition of "emergency response employee (ERE)." The list and accompanying guidelines, originally published in a 2011 Federal Register notice, are republished in this document with these updates.

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Title: Assessment of Filter Penetration Performance for Respirators Beyond Designated Shelf Life and Stockpiled N95 Respirators

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/pdfs/ExpiredN95_TestPlan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) is conducting a series of respirator assessments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This nine-page protocol establishes a method for assessing the particulate filter efficiency of N95 respirators that are stored in stockpiles and are beyond their designated shelf life.

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Title: Assessment of Filter Penetration Performance and Fit for Decontaminated N95 Respirators

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/pdfs/NIOSHApproved_Decon_TestPlan10.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) is conducting a series of respirator assessments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This nine-page protocol establishes a method for assessing the particulate filter efficiency and change in static fit of N95 respirators following decontamination protocols.

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Title: Assessment of Filter Penetration Performance for Non-NIOSH Approved Respirators

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/pdfs/NonNIOSH_Filtration_TestPlan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) is conducting a series of respirator assessments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This 10-page protocol establishes a method for assessing the particulate filter efficiency of respirators approved under standards used in other countries that are similar to NIOSH-approved N95 respirators.

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Title: Updated Interim Guidance for Airlines and Airline Crew: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | CDC

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/ncov-airlines.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: District of Columbia COVID-19 Vaccination Draft Plan - Executive Summary

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/DC-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: American Samoa Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/american-samoa-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guam Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/guam-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Kentucky’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Draft Executive Summary

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/kentucky-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Minnesota Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/minnesota-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/northern-mariana-islands-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Oklahoma Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Oklahoma Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/oklahoma-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Puerto Rico Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summaray - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/puerto-rico-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Texas Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/texas-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: U.S. Virgin Islands Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/us-virgin-islands-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Utah's Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Executive Summary - Draft

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/utah-jurisdiction-executive-summary.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/downloads/COVID-19-Vaccination-Program-Interim_Playbook.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Stronger Together - Coronavirus (COVID-19) | California Department of Education

URL: https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/hn/documents/strongertogether.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - State of California - Interim Draft

URL: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/COVID-19/COVID-19-Vaccination-Plan-California-Interim-Draft_V1.0.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Identifying Critical Infrastructure During COVID-19 | CISA

URL: https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforce

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance document and accompanying list, originally published on March 19, 2020, are intended to support state, local, and industry partners in identifying the critical infrastructure sectors and the essential workers needed to maintain the services and functions Americans depend on daily and that need to be able to operate resiliently during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic response. The Healthcare/Public Health Sector is one of the critical infrastructure sectors.

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Title: CISA Insights: Risk Management for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/20_0318_cisa_insights_coronavirus.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response

URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Version_4.0_CISA_Guidance_on_Essential_Critical_Infrastructure_Workers_FINAL%20AUG%2018v2_0.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Long-Term Care Facility Guidance

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/4220-covid-19-long-term-care-facility-guidance.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued the new recommendations in this three-page document to state and local governments and long-term care facilities (also known as nursing homes) to help mitigate the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Title: Non-Emergent, Elective Medical Services, and Treatment Recommendations

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cms-non-emergent-elective-medical-recommendations.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: At the start of the pandemic, CMS, in collaboration with medical societies and associations, created recommendations to postpone non-essential surgeries and other procedures. This two-page document provides recommendations to limit those medical services that could be deferred, such as non-emergent, elective treatment, and preventive medical services for patients of all ages.

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Title: Information for PACE Organizations Regarding Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-19-pace-memo-3-17-20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: OPENING UP AMERICA AGAIN Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Recommendations Re-opening Facilities to Provide Non-emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare: Phase I

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-flexibility-reopen-essential-non-covid-services.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: For health care that cannot be accomplished virtually, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommendations in this three-page document may guide healthcare systems and facilities as they consider resuming in-person care of non-COVID-19 patients in regions with low incidence of COVID-19 disease.

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Title: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Recommendations Re-opening Facilities to Provide Non-emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-recommendations-reopening-facilities-provide-non-emergent-care.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document describes how, if states or regions have determined with their public health officials that they passed the Gating Criteria (symptoms, cases, and hospitals) for COVID-19 announced on April 16, 2020, then they may proceed to Phase I, and subsequently to Phase II of re-opening. This document refers only to areas in Phase II: States and regions with no evidence of a rebound that satisfy the Gating Criteria.

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Title: Toolkit on State Actions to Mitigate COVID-19 Prevalence in Nursing Homes v26.5

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-toolkit-states-mitigate-covid-19-nursing-homes.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This toolkit, updated throughout the pandemic, catalogs the many innovative solutions designed at the state level to protect the nation's vulnerable nursing home residents during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Title: Center for Clinical Standards and Quality/Quality, Safety & Oversight Group: Suspension of Survey Activities

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-12-all.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance related to the Emergency Preparedness Testing Exercise Requirements- Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

URL: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-41-all.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page worksheet presents guidance for surveyors, as well as providers and suppliers, with relevant scenarios on meeting the emergency preparedness testing requirements in light of many of the response activities associated with the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). CMS regulations for emergency preparedness require specific testing exercises be conducted to validate a facility's emergency program.

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Title: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Requirements and Implications Related to COVID-19 (Revised) | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/emergency-medical-treatment-and-labor-act-emtala-requirements-and-implications-related-covid19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This memorandum conveys information in response to inquiries from hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) concerning implications of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) for their compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). This guidance applies to both Medicare and Medicaid providers. Every hospital or CAH with a dedicated emergency department is required to conduct an appropriate medical screening examination of all individuals who come to the emergency department, including individuals who are suspected of having COVID-19.

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dialysis facilities (Revised) | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-dialysis-facilities

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing additional guidance in this memorandum to dialysis facilities to help them focus their infection control and prevention practices to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 (coronavirus). It also provides answers to frequently asked questions about COVID-19 and dialysis facilities.

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-intermediate-care

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides additional guidance to Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IIDs) and Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) to help control and prevent the spread of the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Outpatient Settings: FAQs and Considerations | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outpatient-settings-faqs

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page memorandum responds to questions and provides important guidance for outpatient settings other than hospital outpatient departments, specifically Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs), Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs), Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (CORFs), Outpatient Physical Therapy or Speech Pathology Services (OPTs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), in addressing the COVID-19 outbreak and minimizing transmission to other individuals.

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of COVID-19 in Hospitals, Psychiatric Hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs): FAQs, Considerations for Patient Triage, Placement, Limits to Visitation and Availability of 1135 waivers. | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-covid-19-hospitals-psychiatric-hospitals-and-critical

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This ten-page memorandum responds to questions and provides important guidance for hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) in addressing the COVID-19 outbreak and minimizing transmission to other individuals. It addresses FAQs related to optimizing patient placement, with the goal of addressing the needs of the individual patient while protecting other patients and healthcare workers.

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Title: Interim Final Rule (IFC), CMS-3401-IFC; Requirements and Enforcement Process for Reporting of COVID-19 Data Elements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/interim-final-rule-ifc-cms-3401-ifc-requirements-and-enforcement-process-reporting-covid-19-data

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new regulatory requirements in this 12-page memorandum for all hospitals and critical access hospitals to report COVID-19 data elements in accordance with a frequency and in a standardized format as specified by the Secretary during the public health emergency for COVID-19.

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Title: Key Components for Continued COVID-19 Management for Dialysis Facilities | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/key-components-continued-covid-19-management-dialysis-facilities

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: To assist in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 within the dialysis population, CMS is reinforcing this 11-page infection control guidance based upon the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for dialysis facilities, which include screening for COVID-19, patient placement, personal protective equipment, isolation, cleaning, and disinfection.

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Title: Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/nursing-home-reopening-recommendations-state-and-local-officials

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page document provides recommendations to help determine the level of mitigation needed to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The recommendations cover these topics: Criteria for relaxing certain restrictions and mitigating the risk of resurgence: Factors to inform decisions for relaxing nursing home restrictions through a phased approach; Visitation and service considerations: Considerations allowing visitation and services in each phase; and Restoration of survey activities: Recommendations for restarting certain surveys in each phase.

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Title: Upcoming Requirements for Notification of Confirmed COVID-19 (or COVID-19 Persons under Investigation) Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/upcoming-requirements-notification-confirmed-covid-19-or-covid-19-persons-under-investigation-among

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page memorandum summarizes new requirements put in place to ensure appropriate tracking, response, and mitigation of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reinforcing an existing requirement that nursing homes must report communicable diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and potential outbreaks to state and local health departments.

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention Concerning Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Home Health Agencies (HHAs) | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-concerning-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-home-health

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention Concerning Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Hospice Agencies | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-concerning-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-hospice

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in nursing homes (REVISED) | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and/guidance-infection-control-and-prevention-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-nursing-homes-revised

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidance for use of Certain Industrial Respirators by Health Care Personnel | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and/guidance-use-certain-industrial-respirators-health-care-personnel

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Prioritization of Survey Activities | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and/prioritization-survey-activities

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plan - Indiana Department of Health

URL: https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/files/Indiana%20COVID-19%20Vaccination%20Plan_%20Interim%20Draft.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Kansas

URL: https://www.coronavirus.kdheks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1533/COVID-19-Vaccination-Plan-for-Kansas-Version12-1142020?bidId=

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines

URL: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report from the National Institutes of Health titled, "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines." The guidelines inform clinicians how to care for patients with COVID-19 including an overview, critical care, antiviral therapy, immune-based therapy, antithrombotic therapy, concomitant medications. The site and guidelines are updated regularly as developments are made.

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Title: Virgin Islands Re-opening Schools Guidance 2020-2021

URL: https://www.covid19usvi.com/sites/default/files/2020-2021%20Reopening%20of%20Schools.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: New Hampshire Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Plan - Draft - October 30, 2020

URL: https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/cdcs/covid19/documents/covid19-vac-plan-draft.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Guidelines for the Prevention, Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin | Wisconsin Department of Health Services

URL: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p02757.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Wisconsin

URL: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p02813a.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: IN-CLASS: COVID-19 Health and Safety Re-entry Guidance | Indiana Department of Education

URL: https://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/news/june-5-class-document.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Recommendations for Homeless Shelter Facilities During a COVID-19 Outbreak

URL: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/13-RecommendationsforHomelessShelters.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: K-12 COVID-19 Requirements for Summer 2021 and the 2021-2022 School Year

URL: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/820-105-K12Schools2021-2022.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Decision Tree for Provision of In Person Learning among K-12 Students at Public and Private Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Washington State Department of Health

URL: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/DecisionTree-K12schools.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Guidance for Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice Agencies

URL: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/HomeHealth-Hospiceguidance.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides COVID-19 infection prevention guidance to help home care, home health, and hospice agencies that provide care to clients/patients in their homes.

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Title: Interim COVID-19 Vaccination Plan - Washington State

URL: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/WA-COVID-19-Vaccination-Plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Assisting Sick, Exposed, Symptomatic, and Quarantined Voters

URL: https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/electionofficials/gcc/Assisting_Sick_Exposed_Sympomatic_and_Quarantined_Voters_092920.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Contact tracing in the European Union: public health management of persons, including healthcare workers, who have had contact with COVID-19 cases – fourth update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19-contact-tracing-public-health-management

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document aims to help European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) public health authorities in the tracing and management of persons, including healthcare workers, who had contact with COVID-19 cases. It outlines the key steps of contact tracing, including contact identification, listing, and follow-up, in the context of the COVID-19 response.

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Title: COVID-19: EU guidance for cruise ship operations

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/COVID-19-cruise-ship-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The objective of this 36-page guidance is to facilitate the re-start of operations of cruise ships in the European Union (EU), by recommending minimum measures expected to be implemented by all those concerned, while maintaining general safety and security standards. This COVID-19 guidance is meant for EU/EEA (European Economic Area) flagged ships engaged in international voyages and for ships calling at an EU/EEA port irrespective of flag.

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Title: Conducting in-action and after-action reviews of the public health response to COVID-19

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/conducting-action-and-after-action-reviews-public-health-response-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 30-page document aims to support the implementation of after-action reviews (AARs) and in-action reviews (IARs) focused on the public health response to COVID-19. It highlights the basic planning and implementation stages.

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Title: Considerations for travel-related measures to reduce spread of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/considerations-travel-related-measures-reduce-spread-covid-19-eueea

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document outlines principles for developing more individualized guidance or operating procedures related to travel in European countries, details travel-related risks, and provides considerations for travel-related measures to reduce spread of COVID-19 in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA).

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Title: Contact tracing for COVID-19: current evidence, options for scale-up and an assessment of resources needed

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/contact-tracing-covid-19-evidence-scale-up-assessment-resources

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document outlines a number of resource measures to use in contract tracing for COVID-19, including the use of well-trained non-public-health staff and volunteers; repurposing existing resources such as call centers; reducing the intensity of contact follow-up; and using new technologies such as contact management software and mobile apps.

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Title: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and supply of substances of human origin in the EU/EEA - Second update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-and-supply-substances-human-origin

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This update is prompted by the recent scientific developments and evolution of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the need to include types of substances of human origin (SoHO) that were not addressed in the first version (e.g., reproductive and some non-reproductive tissues and cells). It aims to provide a risk assessment and management options for the safe and sustainable supply of SoHO to assist the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) Member States in responding to the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: COVID-19 Aviation Health Safety Protocol: Operational guidelines for the management of air passengers and aviation personnel in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-aviation-health-safety-protocol

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have developed these guidelines to serve as an aviation health safety protocol and to provide a source of best practice on how airport operators, airplane operators conducting commercial and non-commercial passenger transport operations, and national aviation authorities can ensure the health and safety of passengers, as well as the staff and crew who serve them, by maintaining safe and secure operations while minimizing the risk of COVID-19 virus transmission.

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Title: Guidance on ending the isolation period for people with COVID-19, third update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-guidance-discharge-and-ending-isolation

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides guidance for planning discharge and ending isolation for COVID-19 patients in the context of the phase of ongoing widespread community transmission. There is an increasing need to discharge patients from hospitals early after clinical symptom improvement in order to maintain healthcare capacity for severe and critically ill patients.

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Title: Guidance on infection prevention and control of COVID-19 in migrant and refugee reception and detention centres in the EU/EEA and the UK

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-guidance-prevention-control-migrant-refugee-centres

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The main objective of this 27-page guidance is to provide scientific advice on public health principles and considerations for infection and prevention control of COVID-19 in migrant and refugee reception and detention centers in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK).

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Title: Guidelines for the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-guidelines-non-pharmaceutical-interventions

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 38-page document provides guidelines that detail available options for non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in various epidemiologic scenarios, assess the evidence for their effectiveness, and address implementation issues, including potential barriers and facilitators.

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