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Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Geographic Location: China
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This three-page report provides an overview of how personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and masks for healthcare personnel, and respiratory devices, including ventilators, are regulated. It summarizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s response to mitigate reported PPE and ventilator shortages related to COVID-19.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Adapting Technology
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Facilities
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Legislation and Jurisprudence, Tracking the Disease, Biomedical Research, Patient Treatment and Experience, Vaccines, Health Facilities, Social Dimensions
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This four-page report discusses how the challenges and successes of analogous efforts during the two largest Ebola outbreaks to date -- in West Africa (2014-2016), and in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), starting in 2018 and now seemingly waning -- may offer lessons for current efforts to contain COVID-19, even though the two viruses differ in significant ways.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Geographic Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may complicate efforts to provide sheltering in typical congregate settings. This report discusses potential emergency sheltering models previously used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and challenges posed by COVID-19, as well as policy considerations.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document provides information about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and its Biological Technologies Office, which currently supports a number of programs that address pandemics. Since the emergence of COVID-19, DARPA has shifted the efforts of many of these programs to focus specifically on the coronavirus pandemic, which the report discusses.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: Congress and the Administration have initiated changes to behavioral health services in recognition of the need to continue treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. This four-page report discusses those changes, and issues for Congress to consider.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vulnerable Populations, People with Mental Health Disorders, People with Substance Use Disorders, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Legislation and Jurisprudence
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This six-page document discusses the licensure (i.e., approval) process for vaccines under the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) and the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as well as potential legal avenues for expediting that process to bring a new COVID-19 vaccine to market sooner.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vaccines, Legislation and Jurisprudence
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States, certain regulatory flexibilities for healthcare entities under Section 1135 of the Social Security Act have been provided. This three-page report summarizes Section 1135 and recent legislative and administrative developments relating to this authority.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page Legal Sidebar provides a list of resources discussing legal topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including Health Care, Health Coverage, and Medical Countermeasures; Quarantine, Isolation, and Travel Restrictions; Medical Goods, Procurement, and Government Contracts; Economic Issues; and Elections.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to limit legal liability for losses relating to the administration of medical countermeasures such as diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines. This report reviews the structure of the PREP Act and the HHS Declaration to explain the scope of this liability immunity as it applies to COVID-19 countermeasures.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence, Patient Treatment and Experience
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This five-page report describes the legal and regulatory framework that governs clinical trials for pharmaceutical products, such as vaccines, and some avenues researchers and Congress may consider for accelerating that process during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence, Biomedical Research, Patient Treatment and Experience, Vaccines
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence, Tracking the Disease, Adapting Technology
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: Several public officials have begun to call for a federal nationwide mask mandate to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases. This four-page document provides an overview of the relevant federal authority to issue such a mandate, as well as other legal considerations for Congress.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Legislation and Jurisprudence
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vaccines, Legislation and Jurisprudence, Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Social Dimensions, Variants, Delta
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Legislation and Jurisprudence, Tracking the Disease
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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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Workforce, Vaccines, Tracking the Disease, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 22-page report discusses how the nation's response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting the federal research and development (R&D) enterprise, and the federal government and others are trying to address those effects. A number of congressional and other policy issues may arise as the situation develops.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This report provides a brief background of the regulatory framework for the U.S. blood supply, explains the federal response to the current crisis, and discusses potential treatment of COVID-19 using blood-derived products.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Patient Treatment and Experience
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The federal government has several authorities that it could exercise should patent rights limit the affordability of or access to a COVID-19 vaccine. This report summarizes this and other legal issues related to COVID-19 vaccine development.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Language: English
Type: Report
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Legislation and Jurisprudence, Vaccines, Biomedical Research, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
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