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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: 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: A Framework for Assessing Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic to Inform Policymaking in Virginia | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA323-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 42-page report examines assessment criteria for early-stage and late-stage models, taking into account the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavior, policy, health outcomes, and the economy. The authors of this report reviewed available models and the relevant literature to produce a framework for assessing a model's suitability for policymakers in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Title: A Framework for Evaluating Approaches to Symptom Screening in the Workplace During the COVID-19 Pandemic | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA653-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The authors of this 20-page report assess five approaches to screening for symptoms of COVID-19 at the workplace: no screening, verbal screening, screening using a paper form or app, verbal screening plus a temperature check at the workplace, and screening using a paper form or app plus a temperature check at the workplace. They rate each approach on five criteria: likelihood of detecting infection, helping employees feel safer, safety of the screening interaction, feasibility, and privacy.

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Title: A National Decision Point: Effective Testing and Screening for Covid-19 - The Rockefeller Foundation

URL: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/a-national-decision-point-effective-testing-and-screening-for-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 30-page report describes how to offer sufficient COVID-19 tests paired with sophisticated strategies for their effective use, in ways that can be tailored to local circumstances and risk tolerances. The goal is to give schools, businesses, and other critical institutions a pathway toward operating safely even for higher-risk populations and with continuing community spread.

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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: A Rapid Review of Economic Policy and Social Protection Responses to Health and Economic Crises and Their Effects on Children: Lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic response

URL: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1095-rapid-review-economic-policy-social-protection-responses-to-health-and-economic-crises.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 54-page rapid review seeks to inform the initial and long-term public policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, by assessing evidence on past economic policy and social protection responses to health and economic crises and their effects on children and families. It focuses on virus outbreaks/emergencies, economic crises, and natural disasters, which, like the COVID-19 pandemic, were rapid in onset, had wide-ranging geographical reach, and resulted in disruption of social services and economic sectors, without affecting governance systems.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Adult social care: our COVID-19 winter plan 2020 to 2021 - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-coronavirus-covid-19-winter-plan-2020-to-2021/adult-social-care-our-covid-19-winter-plan-2020-to-2021

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page sets out the key elements of COVID-19 national support available for the social care sector for winter 2020 to 2021, as well as the main actions to take for local authorities, National Health Service organizations, and social care providers, including in the voluntary and community sector.

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Title: Air Travel and Communicable Diseases: Status of Research Efforts and Action Still Needed to Develop Federal Preparedness Plan | U.S. GAO

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-655T

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page Congressional testimony discusses how COVID-19 is only the latest communicable disease threat to raise public health concerns regarding the spread of contagion through air travel. It provides information on the U.S. aviation system's preparedness to respond to communicable disease threats, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s management of its R&D portfolio, including the extent to which disease transmission on aircraft and at airports has been the focus of FAA research.

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Title: Almost One in Four Adult Workers is Vulnerable to Severe Illness from COVID-19 | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/almost-one-in-four-adult-workers-is-vulnerable-to-severe-illness-from-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses the National Health Information Survey (NHIS) to look at how many adult workers are at increased risk of severe illness if infected with coronavirus, based on risk factors identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These risk factors include having diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease, a body mass index (BMI) above 40, moderate to severe asthma, and a functional limitation due to cancer. It finds that over 90 million adults are at greater risk for severe illness from COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions or age.

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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: 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: 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: Autopsy Practice Relating to Possible Cases of COVID-19 (2019-nCov, Novel Coronavirus from China 2019/2020)

URL: https://www.rcpath.org/uploads/assets/d5e28baf-5789-4b0f-acecfe370eee6223/447e37d0-29dd-4994-a11fe27b93de0905/Briefing-on-COVID-19-autopsy-Feb-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 14-page guidance was produced to aid mortuary staff and pathologists in deciding if a post-mortem examination is appropriate on a possible COVID-19 death, and to advise them on the possible risks associated with such a case and how to reduce these risks. It also covers diagnosis of COVID-19 at post-mortem examination.

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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: 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: Building COVID-19 Contact Tracing Capacity in Health Departments to Support Reopening American Society Safely

URL: https://www.naccho.org/uploads/full-width-images/Contact-Tracing-Statement-4-16-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document recommends key points when addressing the contact tracing gaps within local health departments and the public health system as a whole. Mitigation efforts for the COVID-19 response require tracers to connect with known patients to identify and alert their contacts of possible exposure.

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Title: Building Emergency Planning Scenarios for Viral Pandemics UCL-IRDR Covid-19 Observatory

URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/sites/risk-disaster-reduction/files/building_emergency_planning_scenarios_for_pandemics.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this 41-page report is to provide a systematic, if incomplete, record of the issues connected with the COVID-19 pandemic in order to improve the basis for future emergency planning. Like all large disasters, COVID-19 involves cascading consequences. These need to be factored into future emergency planning scenarios.

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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: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: A New Tool Helps Analyze Commercial Air Travel Involving Infected Passengers | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report quantifies potential vectors of virus transmission to the United States as a result of commercial air travel. Understanding the COVID-19 propagation patterns, regionally and globally, will help policymakers mitigate the resulting threats to public health. The COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool combines case data from Johns Hopkins University with detailed air travel data from the International Air Transport Association.

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Title: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: African Anchor States Face Higher Risk of Importing COVID-19 Cases | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-7.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses the COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool to quantify the potential vectors of COVID-19 transmission to countries in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) area of responsibility (AOR), which encompasses every country in Africa except Egypt.

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Title: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: Air Passenger Transmission Risk to GCC Countries Originated from Outside the Region | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-5.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses the COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool to quantify the potential COVID-19 transmission vectors to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The analysis in this report is based on infection rates in other nations and the travel levels from those nations to the GCC countries between late January and late February 2020.

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Title: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: By January 31, 2020, at Least 1.5 Daily Infected Passengers Were Originating in China | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-2.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Using the COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool, this report estimates the daily rate of COVID-19 virus transmission via air travel from China. By January 31, 2020, passengers from China were likely exporting at least 1.5 cases of COVID-19 globally per day.

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Title: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: COVID-19 Cases in China Were Likely 37 Times Higher Than Reported in January 2020 | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-3.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses the COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool to estimate the likely number of COVID-19 infections in China in early 2020. It presents strong evidence that China's reported COVID-19 caseload was undercounted by a factor of nearly 40.

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Title: COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization: Worldwide Spread of COVID-19 Accelerated Starting on February 19, 2020 | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA248-6.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses the COVID-19 Air Traffic Visualization (CAT-V) tool to estimate when COVID-19 transmission via commercial air travel began to rapidly accelerate throughout the world. It estimates the global spread of COVID-19 by international air passengers prior to the March 11, 2020, declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) that the world was officially experiencing a pandemic.

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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: 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: 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: 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: COVID-19 Rapid Needs Assessments | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | HelpAge International

URL: https://www.helpage.org/what-we-do/coronavirus-covid19/covid19-rapid-needs-assessment-rnas/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides country COVID-19 Rapid Needs Assessments that contain key findings, observations, and a detailed analysis of the many challenges older people face as a result of COVID-19.

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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: COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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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 and Student Homelessness – Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness

URL: https://www.icphusa.org/interactive_data/covid-19-and-student-homelessness/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: A report titled, "COVID-19 and Student Homelessness" presented by the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness published 16 April 2020. The organization, located in New York City, provides information and maps that show how the virus is impacting different NYC communities.

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Title: COVID-19 and Workers at Risk: Examining the Long-Term Care Workforce | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/covid-19-and-workers-at-risk-examining-the-long-term-care-workforce/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This analysis focuses on the characteristics of the 4.5 million people who work in long-term care settings. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first surfaced in the United States, outbreaks in these facilities have been widespread, and it is estimated that about one-fifth of all deaths from COVID-19 are tied to nursing facilities.

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Title: COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk: Description and Top-Line Summary Data — Wave 1, Summer 2020 | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA764-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 63-page report presents the results of the first of four waves of COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk Survey, fielded during summer 2020, with particular focus on populations deemed at risk or underserved, including people of color and those from low- to moderate-income backgrounds.

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Title: COVID-19 and the cost of vaccine nationalism | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA769-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 75-page report examines how the management of the COVID-19 crisis may be affected by vaccine nationalism and what the associated economic cost would be of inequitable access to vaccines across countries.

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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: 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: COVID-19 in Rural America – Is There Cause for Concern? | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/other/issue-brief/covid-19-in-rural-america-is-there-cause-for-concern/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This analysis compares COVID-19 cases and deaths in metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties in the United States. It finds that while metro counties still have significantly higher cases and deaths per capita, non-metro counties are experiencing faster growth rates, potentially signaling challenges ahead.

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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 mental health and wellbeing surveillance: report - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveillance-report

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report, available with links to individual chapters, is about population mental health and well-being in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes up-to-date information to inform policy, planning, and commissioning in health and social care.

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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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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: 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: 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: review of disparities in risks and outcomes - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-review-of-disparities-in-risks-and-outcomes

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 92-page document, updated on August 11, 2020, is a descriptive review of surveillance data on disparities in the risk and outcomes from COVID-19. The review looked at different factors, including age and sex, where people live, deprivation, ethnicity, people's occupation, and care home residence.

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Title: COVID-19: understanding the impact on BAME communities - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-understanding-the-impact-on-bame-communities

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 69-page document provides a summary of stakeholder insights into factors affecting the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities. It found that death rates from COVID-19 were higher for black and Asian ethnic groups when compared to white ethnic groups.

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Title: Capacity for COVID-19 Testing -- Current Status and Considerations

URL: https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Testing-Memo-Update-5-13-20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 17-page memo provides information regarding COVID-19 testing and test capacity, and strategies governors may consider as they work to increase that capacity in their states for both short-term and long-term needs.

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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: 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: 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: 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: Communities of Color at Higher Risk for Health and Economic Challenges due to COVID-19 | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/disparities-policy/issue-brief/communities-of-color-at-higher-risk-for-health-and-economic-challenges-due-to-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: A brief report titled, "Communities of Color at Higher Risk for Health and Economic Challenges due to COVID-19" by Samantha Artiga, Rachel Garfield, and Kendal Orgera. Published by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) on 7 April 2020. The brief "analyzes data on underlying health conditions, health coverage and health care access, and social and economic factors by race and ethnicity to provide insight into how the health and financial impacts of COVID-19 may vary across racial/ethnic groups."

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Title: Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/compliance-physical-distancing-measures-covid-19-implications-rcce-eastern-southern-africa-april-2020/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page brief reports on attitudes and practices relating to physical distancing measures in Eastern and Southern Africa in the context of the current global COVID-19 outbreak. Where relevant, it also includes insight and learning from the Ebola outbreaks in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Title: Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/considerations-principles-shielding-people-high-risk-severe-outcomes-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses the categories of individuals who may be identified for shielding, and outlines the likely difficulties of these measures and ways to mitigate them.

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Title: Contact Tracing Under Siege: Conspiracy Theories and Violent Threats Seek to Undermine America’s Safe Return to Normality

URL: https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Contact-Briefing-Under-Siege.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report discusses how legislation and state-based contract tracing efforts have become the focus of significant suspicion, hostility, and opposition, which threaten public health efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. It details threats to contact tracers, key conspiratorial narratives and influencers, and conspiracy theories.

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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: Contact Tracing: Public Health Management of Persons, Including Healthcare Workers, Having Had Contact with COVID-19 Cases in the European Union

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Public-health-management-persons-contact-novel-coronavirus-cases-2020-03-31.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page 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: 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: 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: Coronavirus Pandemic - Transcript | FRONTLINE

URL: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/coronavirus-pandemic/transcript/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Transcript for a 54 minute film titled, "Coronavirus Pandemic." The film was published 21 April 2020. The video segment is hosted by Miles O'Brien who traveled to Seattle in March 2020 to cover the pandemic.

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Title: Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain - Office for National Statistics

URL: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/bulletins/coronavirusandthesocialimpactsongreatbritain/7january2022

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Coronavirus’ business impact: Evolving perspective | McKinsey

URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk-and-resilience/our-insights/covid-19-implications-for-business

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Covid-19 National Testing & Tracing Action Plan - The Rockefeller Foundation

URL: https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/national-covid-19-testing-and-tracing-action-plan/?doing_wp_cron=1595001935.4668600559234619140625

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report, National COVID-19 Testing Action Plan: Pragmatic Steps to Reopen Our Workplaces and Our Communities, was updated on July 15, 2020. The 51 page updated report lays out the precise steps necessary to enact robust testing, tracing, and coordination to more safely reopen our economy - starting with a dramatic expansion of testing from one million tests per week to initially three million per week and then 30 million per week, backed by an Emergency Network for COVID-19 Testing to coordinate and underwrite the testing market, a public-private testing technology accelerator, and a national initiative to rapidly expand and optimize the use of U.S., university, and local lab capacity.

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Title: Covid-19: Data Quality and Considerations for Modeling and Analysis | U.S. GAO

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-635SP

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 49-page technology assessment examines collection methods and limitations of COVID-19 surveillance data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); approaches for analyzing COVID-19 data; and uses and limitations of forecast modeling for understanding COVID-19.

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Title: Critical Care Surge Capacity in U.S. Hospitals: Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA164-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides a list of strategies to help U.S. hospitals create critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The list was created using a review of scientific literature about past outbreaks and the current COVID-19 pandemic, a survey of frontline clinicians conducted in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, and two roundtables conducted via teleconference with leading emergency and critical care physicians and public health and preparedness experts from around the country.

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Title: Critical Care Surge Response Strategies for the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA164-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In this 49-page report, the authors present a list of strategies for creating critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, and estimate the number of patients accommodated, given the number of available critical care doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, ventilators, and hospital beds. They also document the development of a user-friendly, Microsoft Excel-based tool that allows decision-makers at all levels - hospitals, health care systems, states, regions - to estimate current critical care capacity and rapidly explore strategies for increasing it.

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Title: Data Privacy During Pandemics: A Scorecard Approach for Evaluating the Privacy Implications of COVID-19 Mobile Phone Surveillance Programs | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA365-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 164-page report evaluates the short- and long-term privacy harms associated with the use of mobile phone surveillance programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including political, economic, and social harms. The authors consider whether two potentially competing goals can be achieved concurrently: the use of mobile phones as public health surveillance tools to help manage COVID-19 and future public health crises, and the protection of privacy and civil liberties.

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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: Did California’s Shelter-in-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects | NBER

URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w26992

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, this 80-page report found that California's statewide shelter-in-place order reduced COVID-19 cases by 144,793 to 232,828 and COVID-19 deaths by 1,836 to 4,969 during the first three weeks following its enactment.

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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: Digital Contact Tracing and Surveillance During COVID-19. General and child-specific ethical issues

URL: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1096-digital-contact-tracing-surveillance-covid-19-response-child-specific-issues-iwp.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented rapid scaling up of technologies to support digital contact tracing and surveillance. This 26-page working paper explores the implications for privacy as the linking of datasets increases the likelihood that children will be identifiable; increases the opportunity for (sensitive) data profiling; and frequently involves making data available to a broader set of users or data managers.

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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: 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: Does COVID-19 Affect the Health of Children and Young People More Than We Thought? The case for disaggregated data to inform action

URL: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1108-does-covid-19-affect-the-health-of-children-and-young-people-more-than-we-thought.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report details how, contrary to the current narrative, the risks of COVID-19 disease in children and young people depend largely on where individuals live and how vulnerable they are to disease and ill health. The newly emerging multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) further underscores the need for better reporting, monitoring, and analysis to understand the COVID-19 disease health risks for children and young people.

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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: Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/key-considerations-dying-bereavement-mortuary-funerary-practices-context-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief sets out key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies, and practices), and mourning in the context of the global outbreak of the COVID-19. Further participatory inquiry should be undertaken, but given ongoing transmission, conveying key considerations for adapted end-of-life, mortuary, burial, and funeral practices and related community engagement have been prioritized.

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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: Emergency Legal Preparedness: COVID-19 - Network for Public Health Law

URL: https://www.networkforphl.org/resources/emergency-legal-preparedness-covid19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This primer, updated on August 14, 2020, provides key information on the public health emergency response to the COVID-19. It includes information about a COVID-19 Epi Snapshot; International legal response efforts; and U.S. legal preparedness/response (including emergency declarations).

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Title: Encouraging Participation and Cooperation in Contact Tracing: Lessons from Survey Research |The National Academies Press

URL: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25916/encouraging-participation-and-cooperation-in-contact-tracing-lessons-from-survey

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 11-page report is intended to help decision-makers in local public health departments and local governments increase participation and cooperation in contact tracing related to COVID-19. It focuses on contact tracing methods that involve phone, text, or email interviews with people who have tested positive and with others they may have exposed to the virus.

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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: Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate: Anatomy of an Inference Problem | NBER

URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27023

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Understanding the time path of the COVID-19 pandemic has been hampered by the absence of bounds on infection rates that are credible and informative. This 26-page paper explains the logical problem of bounding these rates and reports illustrative findings, using data from Illinois, New York, and Italy. It combines the data with assumptions on the infection rate in the untested population and on the accuracy of the tests that appear credible in the current context.

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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: Evidence of Initial Success for China Exiting COVID-19 Social Distancing Policy After Achieving Containment

URL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Exiting-Social-Distancing-24-03-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page report is Report 11 in a series of reports from Imperial College London on COVID-19. This report provides information about how China has successfully exited its stringent social distancing policy to some degree. Policies implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in China and the exiting strategies that followed can inform decision-making processes for countries once containment is achieved.

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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: Experiences of Community Health Centers in Expanding Telemedicine | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA100-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Safety-net medical providers can substantially increase their telemedicine services with modest investments in new staff and technology, a move that can help them expand patients' access to specialized medical care, according to this 60-page study. The findings in the report are relevant to health centers that are trying to rapidly expand telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Social Services for Vulnerable Populations in Los Angeles: Lessons Learned from Community Providers | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA431-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The authors of this 30-page report conducted semi-structured interviews with representatives from social services organizations in Los Angeles County to assess how these service providers are responding to COVID-19. The interviews also uncovered lessons learned and innovative strategies for dealing with the pandemic that could be more broadly disseminated. The authors recount these interviews and lessons learned, and provide recommendations for social services organizations.

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Title: Face Masks, Public Policies and Slowing the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada | NBER

URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27891

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 68-page report estimates the impact of mask mandates and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) on COVID-19 case growth in Canada, including regulations on businesses and gatherings, school closures, travel and self-isolation, and long-term care homes. Counterfactual policy simulations suggest that mandating indoor masks nationwide in early July could have reduced the weekly number of new cases in Canada by 25 to 40 percent in mid-August, which translates into 700 to 1,100 fewer cases per week.

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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: Final Statement on the 8th meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005)

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/26-06-2020-final-statement-on-the-8th-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: From pandemics to poverty: hotspots of vulnerability in times of crisis | ODI: Think change

URL: https://www.odi.org/publications/16831-pandemics-poverty-hotspots-vulnerability-times-crisis

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As governments rush to respond to COVID-19, there is an urgent need to ensure that the measures they take are sensitive to the needs of their poorest and most vulnerable people. This 17-page brief outlines countries, sub-national areas, and populations in or near poverty that need to be explicitly prioritized in the response to the coronavirus.

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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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