Title: Zika virus disease epidemic: potential association with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (first update)

URL: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/rapid-risk-assessment-zika-virus-first-update-jan-2016.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Fact sheet titled, "Zika virus disease epidemic potential association with microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome (first update)," published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) website on January 21, 2016.

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Title: The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19 | IZA Institute of Labor Economics

URL: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: ATTACKS ON HEALTH CARE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

URL: http://insecurityinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-Jan-May-Fact-Sheet-COVID-19-and-Conflict.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document describes the changing nature of violence against health care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic based on data for the period January to May 2020.

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Title: ATTACKS ON SCHOOLS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

URL: http://insecurityinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Attacks-on-schools-in-the-context-of-the-COVID-19-pandemic.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides analysis on events where schools were damaged and destroyed during January to May 2020, and discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic and conflict dynamics have shifted the patterns in violence against education.

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Title: Summary Report of COVID-19 in People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH), 11/29/2021 to 12/5/2021

URL: http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/docs/SummaryReport_People_Experiencing_Homelessness.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Briefing notes on Zika and Microcephaly - World | ReliefWeb

URL: http://reliefweb.int/report/world/briefing-notes-zika-and-microcephaly/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Briefing notes on Zika and Microcephaly," by the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Relief Web website on January 19, 2016. The report provides an update on the Zika virus outbreak, evidence for the virus' possible relationship to microcephaly, background on the virus, prevention and treatment, and the WHO response.

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Title: Interim Guidelines for the Evaluation and Testing of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection — United States, 2016 | MMWR

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6503e3.htm

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Interim Guidelines for the Evaluation and Testing of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection - United States, 2016," published on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website on January 29, 2016. The report was issued as a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), and was first posted as an MMWR Early Release on January 26, 2016.

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Title: Estimation of excess mortality due to COVID-19 | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

URL: http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Press Release

URL: http://www.mohsw.gov.lr/content_display.php?press_id=120&sub=press_release

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Situation Report on the EBOLA Virus disease epidemic in Liberia as of March to 17th September, 2014," published on the Government of the Republic of Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare website on September 17, 2014. The report is the 125th report on Ebola in Liberia issued by the government.

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Title: Epidemiological Update: Neurological syndrome, congenital anomalies, and Zika virus infection

URL: http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&Itemid=270&gid=32879&lang=en

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Neurological syndrome, congenital anomalies, and Zika virus infection," published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on January 17, 2016. The report provides an epidemiological update on the Zika virus.

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Title: Asian Americans and COVID-19 Deaths - AAPI Data

URL: https://aapidata.com/covid19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Virus origin / Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

URL: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332217/WHO-2019-nCoV-Human_animal_risk-2020.2-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: A novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was identified by Chinese authorities on January 7, 2020. Available evidence on the 2019-nCoV virus and previous experience with other coronavirus (MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV) and other respiratory viruses (e.g., avian influenza) suggest that there may be zoonotic transmission associated with the 2019-nCoV. This web page provides the World Health Organization's general recommendations, and recommendations for at-risk groups, regarding live animal markets to reduce risk of transmission of emerging pathogens.

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Title: Supply Shortages Impacting COVID-19 and Non-COVID Testing

URL: https://asm.org/Articles/2020/September/Clinical-Microbiology-Supply-Shortage-Collecti-1

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: ASM has partnered with the Association of Supply Chain Management to develop a survey to collect testing supplies status for COVID-19 tests, as well as other microbiological tests, to highlight, and ultimately alleviate, these supply chain issues. This web page will provide the survey findings each week on the most recent shortages of medium, reagents, collection devices, and consumables that are significantly impacting day-to-day testing for both COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, along with week-over-week longitudinal changes.

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Title: Health Center COVID-19 Survey | Bureau of Primary Health Care

URL: https://bphc.hrsa.gov/emergency-response/coronavirus-health-center-data/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: At-Home Diagnostic Testing for Infectious Diseases: A Tool for Accelerating COVID Diagnosis and Building Pandemic Preparedness for the Future

URL: https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/200625-at-home-diagnostic-testing.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page report summarizes a study to develop an expert assessment of the promise and challenges posed by at-home infectious diagnostic technologies. A major aim of the study is to inform pandemic preparedness activities that rely on diagnostic technologies and determine how at-home approaches can integrate with and augment the existing diagnostic paradigm. Limitations surrounding access to diagnostic testing have dominated much of the current response to COVID-19 and highlight the need to have more rapid, convenient, and equitable access to testing.

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Title: Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Health – COVID-19 and the Labor Market

URL: https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13620/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 35-page paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e., those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States.

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Title: Global Learnings from South Korea: Protecting Health Care Workers From COVID-19 – Ariadne Labs COVID-19 Response

URL: https://covid19.ariadnelabs.org/global-learnings-south-korea/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This forty-page evidence brief outlines how South Korea has successfully maintained one of the world's lowest rates of COVID-19 infections in health care workers.

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Title: NIH’s COVID-19 Response | NIH COVID-19 Research

URL: https://covid19.nih.gov/nih-strategic-response-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 38-page NIH-wide COVID-19 strategic plan provides a framework for accelerating the development of COVID-19 therapeutic interventions, vaccines, and diagnostics. NIH will carry out this mission by improving, advancing, and optimizing COVID-19-related research in five key areas: fundamental knowledge, detection and diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and health disparities.

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Title: COVID-19: Global Implications and Responses

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11421

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Testing: Key Issues

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11516

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page report summarizes key issues regarding COVID-19 testing, and explains why both diagnostic and serology testing at scale may be a key component of efforts to ease mitigation measures prior to the development, manufacture, and broad distribution of a vaccine or effective therapeutic.

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Title: Digital Contact Tracing Technology: Overview and Considerations for Implementation

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11559

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic, some public health authorities are automating part of the contact tracing process with smartphone apps. This three-page report provides information about "digital exposure notification (DEN)" -- Bluetooth, which allows short-range wireless communications between electronic devices, and apps that may also be used by public health authorities to enable "digital contact tracing" (DCT).

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Title: Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Domestic Policy Issues

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11609

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, Congress may consider whether and how to guide U.S. contact tracing efforts. This three-page document discusses COVID-19-specific aspects of contact tracing, and issues for Congress to consider.

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Title: Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19: Current Status and Resources Guide

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11253

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page report presents selected information and resources relevant to the domestic public health response to COVID-19 in containing and mitigating the spread and impact of the disease. It provides a table for A Snapshot of the Domestic Public Health Response to COVID-19 from national and international sources.

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Title: COVID-19: U.S. Public Health Data and Reporting

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11361

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Some observers have called for improved public health surveillance and data reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page document provides an overview of the current systems and policy considerations for Congress.

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Title: COVID-19: Digital Contact Tracing and Privacy Law

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10511

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page report discusses the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule's application to digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the interaction of the HIPAA Privacy Rule with mobile application contact tracing, and other federal laws that regulate data privacy.

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Title: Overview of U.S. Domestic Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46219

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46288

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not currently have a specific standard that protects healthcare or other workers from airborne or aerosol transmission of disease or diseases transmitted by airborne droplets. This report describes how some in Congress, and some groups representing healthcare and other workers, are calling on OSHA to promulgate an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect workers from exposure to SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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Title: COVID-19 Pandemic - Humanitarian Data Exchange

URL: https://data.humdata.org/event/covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This map shows the number of confirmed cases and deaths from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in locations with Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) or other types of response plans. The countries include Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Сentral African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen.

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Title: How COVID-19 is changing the world: A statistical perspective, Volume II - UNICEF DATA

URL: https://data.unicef.org/resources/how-covid-19-is-changing-the-world-a-statistical-perspective-volume-2/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The United Nations and all member organizations of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) collect and make available a wealth of information for assessing the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This 80-page report updates some of the global and regional trends presented in Volume I and offers a snapshot of how COVID-19 continues to affect the world today across multiple domains.

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Title: How COVID-19 is changing the world: A statistical perspective, Volume I - UNICEF DATA

URL: https://data.unicef.org/resources/how-covid-19-is-changing-the-world-a-statistical-perspective/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 90-page report from the UN Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities presents a snapshot of some of the latest information available on how COVID-19 is affecting the world. The quantitative knowledge presented in this report covers different aspects of public and private life from economic and environmental fluctuations to changes that affect individuals in terms of income, education, employment, and violence, and changes affecting public services such as civil aviation and postal services. The report also puts a spotlight on the effects for some sub-population groups like women and children, as well as geographical regions.

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Title: Document - Turkey: IFRC / TRC - Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Assessment on COVID-19 - EN

URL: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/82472

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: To understand communities' knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP), along with their information needs on COVID-19, this 48-page KAP assessment was conducted by the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRCS), with support from IFRC, under the Community Based Migration Programme (CBMP). The findings are intended to inform understanding of community perceptions of, and knowledge about, COVID-19 and, in turn, shape risk communication, behavior change, and community engagement activities.

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Title: COVID-19 Youth Behavioral Health Impact Situation Report

URL: https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/821-135-YouthBehavioralHealthSitRep-March2022.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Confirmed Cases by Industry Sector Washington State Department of Health and Washington State Department of Labor and Industries

URL: https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/Documents/1600/coronavirus//OccupationIndustryReport.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report was a collaboration between Department of Health and Labor and Industries, Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention Program, and contains data on occupation and industry among lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 among Washington residents reported through June 16, 2020.

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Title: Children and COVID-19: State Data Report

URL: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Children%20and%20COVID-19%20State%20Data%20Report%204.29.21%20FINAL.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Living with Covid19

URL: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/themedreview/living-with-covid19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This rapid and dynamic review draws on the lived experience of COVID-19 patients and expert consensus, as well as published evidence, to better understand the impact of ongoing effects of COVID-19, how health and social care services should respond, and what future research questions might be.

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Title: ALTERNATIVE CARE SITES: THE FEDERAL EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK CITY

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-alternative-care-sites-the-federal-experience-in-new-york-city.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Throughout the spring of 2020, COVID-19 ravaged the City of New York. State and city authorities worked with the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to create an alternate care site where healthcare providers could solely treat COVID-19 patients. This nine-page report from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) details interviews with several members of the federal medical teams deployed to the Javits Center to learn more about their experience.

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Title: CIVIL UNREST DURING A PANDEMIC: NOTES FROM MINNEAPOLIS

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-civil-unrest-during-a-pandemic-notes-from-minneapolis.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, protests began in Minneapolis, other cities across the U.S., and abroad. This four-page document summarizes conversations with Dr. John Hick and Seth Jones, Hennepin (MN) Healthcare System's Emergency Preparedness Program Manager, to better understand how days of civil unrest affected emergency management, the emergency department, emergency medical services, and the community hospitals, and how this factored into the hospital's COVID-19 response.

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Title: COVID-19 AND URGENT CARE CENTERS

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-covid-19-and-urgent-care-centers.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page document details TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange)'s interviews with staff from the Urgent Care Association to learn more about their experiences with COVID-19, lessons learned, and plans to work with their local medical communities in the near future.

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Title: Rural Health and COVID-19

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-rural-health-and-covid-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides an overview of the challenges faced by rural areas specific to COVID-19. It is intended to help hospital and health system emergency planners, as well as state and local public health emergency planners, better understand the challenges their communities may face.

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Title: ASPR TRACIE Technical Assistance Request

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/aspr-tracie-ta-drive-through-testing-3-16-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Legislative and Regulatory Steps for a National COVID-19 Testing Strategy

URL: https://healthpolicy.duke.edu/publications/legislative-and-regulatory-steps-national-covid-19-testing-strategy

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 13-page report outlines legislative actions and federal appropriation targets that Duke-Margolis and its collaborating experts believe are needed to get a robust, diversified COVID-19 testing strategy in place for the nation by fall 2020.

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Title: Rapid Assessment of service delivery for NCDs during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas, 4 June 2020

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52250/PAHONMHNVCOVID-19200024_eng.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report presents a snapshot of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on noncommunicable disease (NCD) services in the Region of the Americas. It represents the views and perspectives of the national health authorities responsible for overseeing the governmental NCD programs during a period of four weeks in May 2020, at a time when the Region of the Americas was considered the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Health and the Economy: A Convergence Needed to Address COVID-19 and Retake the Path of Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/52535/PAHOHSSCOVID-19200027_eng.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 24-page joint report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is issued at a time when several Latin American countries have become the epicenter of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The main conclusion of this report is that if the pandemic transmission curve is not brought under control, the countries' economies will be unable to recover.

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Title: The potential impact of COVID-19 in refugee camps in Bangladesh and beyond: A modeling study

URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003144

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situational Update, Thursday, July 29, 2021

URL: https://mayor.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/mayormb/page_content/attachments/COVID-Situational-Update-Presentation-07-29-21.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Survey Reveals Impact of COVID-19 on MB Churches

URL: https://mbfoundation.com/2020/07/22/survey-reveals-impact-of-covid-19-on-mb-churches/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC)

URL: https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2020/04/ISARIC_Data_Platform_COVID-19_Report_2APR20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 24-page document is a report of aggregate data about the COVID-19 pandemic, with data entered for 5,532 individuals from 215 sites across 25 countries. The analysis detailed in this report includes only individuals for whom data collection commenced on or before March 19, 2020.

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Title: “130,000 – 210,000 AVOIDABLE COVID-19 DEATHS – AND COUNTING – IN THE U.S.”

URL: https://ncdp.columbia.edu/custom-content/uploads/2020/10/Avoidable-COVID-19-Deaths-US-NCDP.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 13-page report looks at the staggering and disproportionate nature of COVID-19 fatalities in the United States, which now ranks first in the world in the total number of fatalities, to estimate how many deaths were "avoidable." It estimates that at least 130,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 210,000 could have been avoided with earlier policy interventions and more robust federal coordination and leadership.

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Title: OP #49: A Guide to Investigating Outbreak Origins

URL: https://nonproliferation.org/op-49-a-guide-to-investigating-outbreak-origins/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: COVID-19 has exposed key gaps in the global community's ability to assess infectious disease outbreaks of international concern, in particular the ability to differentiate between natural and laboratory sources of infection. The purpose of this 34-page paper is to outline a readily adoptable, stepwise methodology to guide the investigation of corresponding outbreak origins, building upon traditional epidemiological principles.

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Title: Adapting data collection and utilisation to a Covid-19 reality: monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches for adaptive management | ODI: Think change

URL: https://odi.org/en/publications/adapting-data-collection-and-utilisation-to-a-covid-19-reality-monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-approaches-for-adaptive-management/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 11-page briefing note focuses on the remote collection and use of data for adaptive management during the COVID-19 pandemic, setting out key considerations to help practitioners think through a transition from more traditional monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) to MEL for adaptive management (MEL4AM) that reflects the unique data collection challenges presented by COVID-19.

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Title: Hospital Experiences Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a National Pulse Survey March 23-27, 2020 OEI-06-20-00300 04-03-2020

URL: https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-20-00300.asp

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 41-page review provides the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other decision-makers (e.g., state and local officials and other federal agencies) with a national snapshot of hospitals' challenges and needs in responding to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hospitals reported that their most significant challenges centered on testing and caring for patients with COVID-19, and keeping staff safe. Hospitals said that severe shortages of testing supplies and extended waits for test results limited hospitals' ability to monitor the health of patients and staff. They also reported that widespread shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) put staff and patients at risk.

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Title: Social Dimensions of the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response

URL: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15121/SSHAP_Social_Dimensions_nCoV_outbreak_response_meeting_report_Feb2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page report summarizes a roundtable meeting held on February 3, 2020, to discuss appropriate social science and humanities inputs that can improve understanding of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) outbreak in global terms, including the response in China, Asia, and around the world; identify social science evidence needs and modes of engagement with policymakers and practitioners that could inform preparedness and response over the next period; and foster mutual learning among social scientists and historians working in China and other settings about how their perspectives can most appropriately contribute.

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Title: Tracking COVID-19 in the United States - Prevent Epidemics

URL: https://preventepidemics.org/covid19/resources/indicators/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: It is crucial that state, county, and city health departments publicly report essential data on COVID-19 using consistent indicators that can be compared both across regions and over time. To better understand the publicly available data that currently exists, this 21-page report reviewed the state-level data dashboard for all 50 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia.

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Title: UNHCR MENA COVID-19 Emergency Response Update #24 (1 – 31 October 2021) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/unhcr-mena-covid-19-emergency-response-update-24-1-31-october-2021

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Continuing care during COVID-19: adopting lifesaving approaches to treat acute malnutrition - World | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/continuing-care-during-covid-19-adopting-lifesaving-approaches-treat-acute-malnutrition

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page report details how the risk of increasing rates of acute malnutrition during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need to adapt, and expand access to, acute malnutrition diagnosis and treatment services in humanitarian and fragile contexts. It provides actions for ensuring acute malnutrition treatment programs continue during COVID-19.

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Title: Global research community asks for the right research in the right places for COVID-19 - World | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-research-community-asks-right-research-right-places-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 71-page report aims to identify the current global COVID-19 research priorities for this and future pandemics of COVID-19 or new pathogens, and calls for the use of research evidence on the optimal implementation of public health interventions for COVID-19 in varied global settings.

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Title: Guidance for Health Care Worker (HCW) Surveys in Humanitarian Contexts in LMICs - World | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/guidance-health-care-worker-hcw-surveys-humanitarian-contexts-lmics

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page document has been developed for response actors working in humanitarian contexts who seek rapid approaches to gathering evidence about the experience of healthcare workers, and the communities of which they are a part. Understanding healthcare worker experience is critical to inform and guide humanitarian programming and effective strategies to promote infection prevention and control, and identify psychosocial support needs. Links to surveys, including about COVID-19, are on page 8.

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Title: IN FOCUS: COVID-19 and the Wuhan Institute of Virology

URL: https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/covid-19_and_the_wuhan_institute_of_virology_19_may_2021.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Understanding Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Children about COVID-19 | Save the Children’s Resource Centre

URL: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/evidence_to_action_report-_save_the_children.pdf/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The overall objective of this 12-page rapid need assessment was to gain insights on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Cambodian children around COVID-19. The study aimed to understand the information needs of children, their preferred and most trusted communication channels, their current household situation, their understanding of the virus, and how they are protecting themselves, as well as their top concerns and needs.

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Title: United States Resource Availability for COVID-19 | SCCM

URL: https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report addresses the most current data and estimates on the number of acute care, ICU, and step-down (eg, observation, progressive) beds; ICU occupancy rates; mechanical ventilators; and staffing available for the COVID-19 pandemic. It also seeks to provide context to the data.

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Title: Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report

URL: https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Main Report & accompanying work - The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

URL: https://theindependentpanel.org/mainreport/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: PROJECTED DEATHS OF DESPAIR from COVID-19

URL: https://wellbeingtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WBT_Deaths-of-Despair_COVID-19-FINAL-FINAL.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The goal of this 12-page report is to predict what deaths of despair might be seen based on three assumptions during COVID-19: economic recovery, relationship between deaths of despair and unemployment, and geography.

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Title: Mental health: learning from Covid-19 | Report | Wellcome

URL: https://wellcome.org/reports/mental-health-listening-young-people-and-learning-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page document discusses how COVID-19 is an opportunity to learn about mental health. It lays out a commitment by Wellcome, UNICEF, WHO, the World Economic Forum, and the Office of the UN Secretary General to embark on a learning journey on how best to embed the following three principles across all our mental health work: Putting lived experience at the heart of policy and practice; positioning local innovation as a focus for learning and funding; and envisioning mental health as larger than healthcare.

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Title: Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report

URL: https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Understanding the impact of COVID-19: Key questions and info gaps | ACAPS

URL: https://www.acaps.org/special-report/understanding-impact-covid-19-key-questions-and-info-gaps

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page report provides an overview of the key information gaps and limitations in interpreting existing COVID-19 data. It lists environmental factors, secondary impact, pandemic trajectory, and response. It also identifies the big questions that are important for our understanding of the impact of COVID-19.

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Title: ACEP // ACEP COVID-19 Field Guide

URL: https://www.acep.org/corona/covid-19-field-guide/cover-page/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This resource is a compilation of what is known now on the evaluation and treatment of COVID-19. It is a living document that will be updated as new information, guidance, and best practices evolve. This field guide aims to provide the information emergency physicians need to assess the available resources in their community and determine their local applications.

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Title: A Compendium of Models that Predict the Spread of COVID-19 | AHA

URL: https://www.aha.org/guidesreports/2020-04-09-compendium-models-predict-spread-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page report provides an overview of links to models that can help organizations address COVID-19 case projections and capacity planning, community vulnerability mapping, and case mapping. It provides links to 11 COVID-19 models and provides an overview of each tool's capabilities and the resource's methodology documentation.

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Title: Latinos Face Disproportionate Health and Economic Impacts From COVID-19 - Center for American Progress

URL: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2021/03/05/496733/latinos-face-disproportionate-health-economic-impacts-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Public Health Considerations: Serologic Testing for COVID-19, Version 1

URL: https://www.aphl.org/programs/preparedness/Crisis-Management/Documents/Serologic-Testing-for-COVID-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document, published with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, provides an overview of COVID-19 serologic methods, and discusses current test availability, considerations when selecting an assay for seroprevalence studies, considerations for test result interpretation, and additional considerations and outstanding research needs.

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Title: Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 deaths analyzed by race and ethnicity — APM Research Lab

URL: https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: A Coordinated, National Approach to Scaling Public Health Capacity for Contact Tracing and Disease Investigation

URL: https://www.astho.org/globalassets/pdf/covid/national-approach-to-scaling-ph-capacity-for-contact-tracing.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As the nation looks to restart the economy and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, this thirteen-page document describes how reopening entirely will depend on expanded public health testing and contact tracing efforts, sustained healthcare system capacity to respond to new outbreaks, and public compliance with existing and new containment and mitigation efforts.

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Title: Preparation of Viral Transport Medium Standard Operating Procedure

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/Viral-Transport-Medium.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Virus sample on a nasal swab might spoil if it is not kept in a special liquid that keeps it fresh and viable during transport on its way from the nose to a COVID-19 testing lab. The liquid is called viral transport medium (VTM), and in the pandemic, supplies of VTM have run low. These eight-page instructions for professionals to make VTM themselves, and many labs and hospitals have used the document to increase their supplies.

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Title: Science Brief: Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in K-12 Schools and Early Care and Education Programs - Updated | CDC

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and Race and Ethnicity — United States, January 26–October 3, 2020 | MMWR

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm6942e2_w

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Outbreak in an Amish Community — Ohio, May 2020 | MMWR

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6945a2.htm

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage — United States, December 29, 2020–January 12, 2021 | MMWR

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e2.htm?s_cid=mm7003e2_w

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: What tests could potentially be used for the screening, diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 and what are their advantages and disadvantages? - The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

URL: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/what-tests-could-potentially-be-used-for-the-screening-diagnosis-and-monitoring-of-covid-19-and-what-are-their-advantages-and-disadvantages/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Many diagnostic tests for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are available so far, with more gaining emergency approval every day. This report analyzes these tests, which are largely based on four different techniques that are detailed.

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Title: The Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://www.cell.com/med/pdf/S2666-6340(20)30031-3.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Filling in the Blanks: National Research Needs to Guide Decisions about Reopening Schools in the United States

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/2020/filling-in-the-blanks-national-research-needs-to-guide-decisions-about-reopening-schools-in-the-united-states

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 50-page report summarizes key findings of a selection of published pediatric literature related to COVID-19 mitigation strategies for schools, and provides recommendations for areas where additional study and expedited research are needed. Recognizing that many countries are opening schools now, it summarizes the approaches and plans of several countries in their efforts to resume in-classroom education, as it will be important to observe whether and how these measures ultimately affect disease transmission.

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Title: Developing a National Strategy for Serology (Antibody Testing) in the United States

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/developing-a-national-strategy-for-serology-antibody-testing-in-the-US

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Serology (antibody) tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus have the potential to inform good public health decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. This 38-page report describes potential uses of the tests, areas of uncertainty where additional research is needed, and examples from other countries now beginning to make use of these tests.

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Title: Modernizing and Expanding Outbreak Science to Support Better Decision Making During Public Health Crises: Lessons for COVID-19 and Beyond

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/modernizing-and-expanding-outbreak-science-to-support-better-decision-making-during-public-health-crises

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this 27-page report is to characterize the origin and implications of the disconnect between modelers and public health decision-makers, and to develop a plan for the expansion of outbreak science as a capability to support public health, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Resetting Our Response: Changes Needed in the US Approach to COVID-19

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/resetting-our-response-changes-needed-in-the-us-approach-to-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 15-page report describes 10 concrete policy actions at the federal, state, and local levels that are needed to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Recommendations identify "quarterbacks," or responsible designees, to lead each policy action.

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Title: A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200410-national-plan-to-contact-tracing.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page plan, published with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), outlines a vision for how to manage COVID-19 epidemics going forward, including ways that case identification and contact tracing capabilities can be greatly expanded; actions that the federal, state, and local governments and other organizations must take to stand up these capabilities as quickly as possible; and resources that will be needed to accomplish comprehensive case finding and contact tracing.

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Title: National Action Plan for Expanding and Adapting the Healthcare System for the Duration of the COVID Pandemic

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200505-healthcare-report.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 24-page report offers answers and recommendations related to the urgent near-term need to address key challenges faced now by healthcare facilities and healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include the personal protective equipment supply chain, sustaining and augmenting the healthcare workforce, protecting emergency medical services personnel from infectious diseases, and preparing for the next pandemic.

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Title: SARS-CoV-2 Genetics

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/COVID-19-fact-sheets/200128-nCoV-whitepaper.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document, updated on April 16, 2020, provides a summary of findings about SARSCoV-2 and COVID-19, which include that the outbreak was initiated from either a single introduction into humans or very few animal-to-human transmission events; and that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 use the same cellular receptor, ACE2, which could be used as a starting point for creating therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2.

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Title: COVID-19 in Child Care - Child Care Aware® of America

URL: https://www.childcareaware.org/covid-19-in-child-care/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report provides information about a survey conducted by Yale University of more than 55,000 child care providers from May and June 2020 in the United States that helps provide some answers to the safety of child care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Do Americans Face Greater Mental Health and Economic Consequences from COVID-19? Comparing the U.S. with Other High-Income Countries | Commonwealth Fund

URL: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/aug/americans-mental-health-and-economic-consequences-COVID19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report illustrates COVID-19's effects on people's mental health and economic security, and compares levels of public trust in national leaders in responding to the pandemic in the United States and other countries.

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Title: Assessing Underlying State Conditions and Ramp-Up Challenges for the COVID-19 Response | Commonwealth Fund

URL: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/mar/assessing-underlying-state-conditions-and-ramp-challenges-covid

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: States are quickly coming to terms with their ability to handle the current level of COVID-19 cases. To understand the capacity in each state and to help inform decisions of federal and state policymakers in the coming weeks, this study aggregated a set of state-level data indicators related to clinical risk factors of the state's adult population; state health system capacity and resources, under both current and "surge" scenarios; and insurance coverage and cost-related access barriers for adults.

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Title: Global Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Handbook | Center for Strategic and International Studies

URL: https://www.csis.org/analysis/global-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-handbook

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Unclassified Summary of Assessment on COVID-19 Origins

URL: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-Summary-of-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status | Texas Department of State Health Services

URL: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/immunize/covid19/data/Cases-and-Deaths-by-Vaccination-Status-11082021.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Mpox (formerly named monkeypox) situation update, as of 17 January 2023

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/monkeypox-situation-update

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Baseline projections of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK: update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/baseline-projections-covid-19-eueea-and-uk-update

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 34-page report provides updated 30-day projections that illustrate potential future trends in COVID-19 transmission in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and the United Kingdom. They are presented with the inherent model assumptions and uncertainties.

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Title: COVID-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission - second update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/children-and-school-settings-covid-19-transmission

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The aim of this 31-page document is to provide an overview of the epidemiology and disease characteristics of COVID-19 in children (0-18 years) in the European Union/European Economic Area countries and the United Kingdom (UK), and an assessment of the role of childcare (preschools; ages 0-<5 years) and educational (primary and secondary schools; ages 5-18 years) settings in COVID-19 transmission.

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Title: COVID-19 clusters and outbreaks in occupational settings in the EU/EEA and the UK

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-clusters-and-outbreaks-occupational-settings-eueea-and-uk

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The aim of this 17-page document is to describe COVID-19 clusters and outbreaks in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK) linked to occupational settings, including healthcare and non-healthcare settings, and to identify possible factors contributing to transmission in these settings.

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Title: Rapid Risk Assessment: Increased transmission of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK – thirteenth update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-risk-assessment-increased-transmission-thirteenth-update

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 14-page update assesses the risk for the general population and vulnerable individuals in relation to the increase in COVID-19 notification rates in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK). There has been a considerable further increase in COVID-19 infections, and the current situation represents a major threat to public health.

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Title: Rapid risk assessment: Increased transmission of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK – twelfth update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-risk-assessment-increased-transmission-twelfth-update

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 27-page update analyzes the risk posed to the general population, vulnerable individuals, and healthcare provision by the current increase in COVID-19 case notification rates observed in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK).

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Title: COVID-19 testing strategies and objectives

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-testing-strategies-and-objectives

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 22-page document outlines strategies and objectives for sustainable SARS-CoV-2 testing of populations to achieve specific public health objectives in various epidemiological situations. General population-wide testing, as well as targeted testing of individuals, or specific populations related to particular settings, are presented on the basis of country experiences and information collected from scientific literature.

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