Title: “The greatest need was to be listened to”: The importance of mental health and psychosocial support during COVID-19

URL: https://www.interaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Countering-Stigmatization-in-the-Humanitarian-Response-to-COVID19-1.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 16-page report highlights key findings and recommendations outlined in a webinar and roundtable event hosted by the InterAction Protection Working Group in July 2020 to discuss how stigma is impacting humanitarian responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, best practices, key challenges, and ways forward.

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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: mHealth for strengthening national diabetes prevention and control, WDF15-1246 | World diabetes foundation

URL: https://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/projects/tunisia-wdf15-1246

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: [Withdrawn] COVID-19: long-term health effects - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-long-term-health-effects

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides information on the health problems reported in COVID-19 cases following acute disease, and guidance for healthcare professionals on how to advise recovering COVID-19 patients.

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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: Zika Virus Spreads to New Areas - Region of the Americas, May 2015-January 2016

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6503e1.htm

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Zika Virus Spreads to New Areas - Region of the Americas, May 2015-January 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 details new areas into which the virus had spread in the Americas.

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Title: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish trust in science? | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

URL: https://voxeu.org/article/will-covid-19-renew-or-diminish-trust-science/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: VoxEU.org

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Title: Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It

URL: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2020/10/globalvaccine1020_web.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 83-page document summarizes research examining the rights implications surrounding COVID-19 vaccine availability and affordability. It drew on more than six months of reporting on the pandemic's impacts on different populations, including health workers.

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Title: White Paper—Stopping COVID-19: Short-Term Actions for Long-Term Impact | The MITRE Corporation

URL: https://www.mitre.org/publications/technical-papers/white-paper-stopping-covid-19-short-term-actions-for-long-term-impact

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: What we are learning from COVID-19 about being prepared for a public health emergency

URL: https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TFAH2020CovidResponseBriefFnl.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The COVID-19 crisis has illuminated the critical need for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders to take steps to shore up the nation's preparedness for the long term, even as the current response is ongoing. This eight-page COVID-19 Policy Response Brief lays out four major issue areas that need attention: funding and coordination, medical countermeasures, healthcare readiness, and equity and resilience.

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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: What if… We Used a Hotel for Patients? | ASHE

URL: https://www.ashe.org/what-if-we-used-hotel-patients

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Knowing that the current U.S. hospital bed capacity will likely fall short of the need during the COVID-19 pandemic, this report discusses the need to identify alternatives that can help offload the bed demand from hospitals, and if hotels could be used for COVID-19 patient care and sequestration.

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Title: What US Hospitals Should Do Now to Prepare for a COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/cbn/2020/cbnreport-02272020.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page offers American hospital administrators and clinicians specific judgment on what hospitals should do to prepare for a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It presents the argument for urgent preparedness, provides a table of Health and Human Services pandemic planning assumptions, lists top priorities and specific priority actions to be taken, and discusses how to proceed.

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Title: What Do We Know About Children and Coronavirus Transmission? | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/what-do-we-know-about-children-and-coronavirus-transmission/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This review of the latest available data indicates that, while children who are infected with COVID-19 are more likely to be asymptomatic and less likely to experience severe disease (though a small subset become quite sick), they are capable of transmitting to both children and adults.

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Title: Weight management services during COVID-19: phase 1 insights - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/weight-management-services-during-covid-19-phase-1-insights

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 69-page document is a rapid review to gain an understanding of how the pandemic affected people in lockdown, changes to weight management delivery and commissioning, and how services need to adapt in response to the recovery strategy.

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Title: WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: WHO | Ebola response roadmap

URL: http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/response-roadmap/en/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Report titled, "Ebola Response Roadmap,," which published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 2014. The report provides information to governments and partners on how to respond to the Ebola outbreak.

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Title: WHO | Ebola and Marburg virus disease

URL: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/130160/1/WHO_HSE_PED_CED_2014.05_eng.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Document titled, "Ebola and Marburg virus disease epidemics: preparedness, alert, control, and evaluation," published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in August of 2014. The document provides guidelines for preparing for, and dealing with, the Ebola virus.

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Title: WHO COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Progress Report - 1 February to 30 June 2020

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-covid-19-preparedness-and-response-progress-report---1-february-to-30-june-2020

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report highlights the main points of progress that were made up to June 30, 2020, under the three objectives outlined in the COVID-19 Strategic Response and Preparedness Plan: scaling up international coordination and support; scaling up country preparedness and response by pillar; and accelerating research and innovation. The report also discusses some of the key challenges faced so far, and provides an update on the resource requirements for the next phase of WHO's response as part of an unprecedented whole-of-UN approach to the pandemic.

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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: Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee Meeting February 26, 2021

URL: https://www.fda.gov/media/146217/download

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Vaccine misinformation management field guide - UNICEF

URL: https://www.unicef.org/mena/reports/vaccine-misinformation-management-field-guide/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Vaccine Plan in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

URL: https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/ADH_COVID-19_Vaccination_Plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Using face masks in the community

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-use-face-masks-community.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document provides the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) opinion on the suitability of face masks and other face covers in the community by individuals who are not ill in order to reduce potential pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 from the mask wearer to others.

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Title: Using Telehealth to Reduce Healthcare Worker and Patient Exposures - Considerations for State and Territorial Health Leaders

URL: https://www.astho.org/COVID-19/Using-Telehealth-to-Reduce-Healthcare-Worker-and-Patient-Exposure/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Using Art to Promote a Healthy Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Urban Institute

URL: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/104287/using-art-to-promote-a-healthy-community_0.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Urban and rural differences in coronavirus pandemic preparedness - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

URL: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/urban-and-rural-differences-in-coronavirus-pandemic-preparedness/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This brief analyzes variation in hospital bed capacity by region in the U.S. and by metro/non-metro status, and examines metro and non-metro differences in the share of the population that is at increased risk of COVID-19 due to age or health status. Non-metro areas are largely rural, and, even prior to the pandemic, face different challenges in health system capacity, including further travel times for patients and provider shortages.

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Title: Updated Information for Human Cell, Tissue, or Cellular or Tissue-based Product (HCT/P) Establishments Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic | FDA

URL: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/updated-information-human-cell-tissue-or-cellular-or-tissue-based-product-hctp-establishments

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page, updated on July 2, 2020, provides information about routine screening measures that are already in place for evaluating clinical evidence of infection in human cell, tissue, or cellular or tissue-based product (HCT/P) donors. To date, there have been no reported cases of transmission of COVID-19 via these products. FDA does not recommend using laboratory tests to screen asymptomatic HCT/P donors.

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Title: Updated Evidence to Support the Emergency Use of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma –

URL: https://www.fda.gov/media/142386/download

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page document describes four lines of evidence that continue to support the emergency use of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma at this time, one month after initial issuance of the Emergency Use Authorization: 1) historical data regarding prior experience with the use of convalescent plasma in other outbreak settings; 2) data from animal studies; 3) data that continues to emerge in the published literature from clinical studies performed during the current outbreak; and 4) results obtained from a large expanded access treatment protocol (National Expanded Program).

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Title: Update: Severe Respiratory Disease Associated with a Novel Coronavirus; 7 December 2012

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/media/en/publications/Publications/20121207-Novel-coronavirus-rapid-risk-assessment.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This six-page document is the second update of the Rapid Risk Assessment on severe respiratory disease associated with a novel coronavirus, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). It was produced in view of two developments: the retrospective diagnosis of novel coronavirus infections in two fatal cases of severe pneumonia in April 2012 in Jordan, and the publication of the results of a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control survey of European laboratories on diagnostic capacities for novel coronavirus in Europe.

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Title: Update: Severe Respiratory Disease Associated with a Novel Coronavirus; 26 November 2012

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/rapid-risk-assessment-update-severe-respiratory-disease-associated-novel

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page updated risk assessment discusses the public health risk implications of the detection of further novel coronavirus cases, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), identified in, or coming from, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. It updates information and conclusions from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control's risk assessment of September 24, 2012.

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Title: Unvaccinated for COVID-19 but Willing: Demographic Factors, Geographic Patterns, and Changes Over Time | ASPE

URL: https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/unvaccinated-willing-ib

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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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: Understanding the systemic nature of risk in the midst of COVID-19 | PreventionWeb

URL: https://www.preventionweb.net/news/why-does-understanding-systemic-nature-risk-matter-midst-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This article explores the systemic nature of risk made visible by the COVID-19 global pandemic, what needs to change, and how we can make the paradigm shift from managing disasters to managing risks. It discusses how the COVID-19 global pandemic is a complex manifestation of systemic risk, and includes elements of surprise and non-linearity.

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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: 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: Understanding Compliance with OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

URL: https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/respiratory-protection-covid19-compliance.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the availability of respirators and fit-testing supplies. This two-page document is intended to help employers understand and comply with OSHA's temporary enforcement guidance for the Respiratory Protection standard.

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Title: Under the Radar: States Vary in Regulating and Reporting COVID-19 in Assisted Living Facilities | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/under-the-radar-states-vary-in-regulating-and-reporting-covid-19-in-assisted-living-facilities/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This analysis, updated on June 16, 2020, examines how states are regulating assisted living facilities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on state-issued guidance for assisted living facilities on three key measures identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pertaining to visitors to facilities, daily staff screening, and universal use of personal protective equipment by facility staff, for each of the 50 states and DC.

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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: USAID Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH): Strategic Approach to COVID-19 Response | Globalwaters.org

URL: https://www.globalwaters.org/resources/assets/usaid-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-wash-strategic-approach-covid-19-response

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document provides a comprehensive overview of the USAID's water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) strategic approaches in support of each pillar of the joint USAID and State Department U.S. Strategy to Prevent, Prepare for, and Respond to Coronavirus Abroad. Ensuring services such as drinking water and sanitation are continuously available during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to governance, economic growth, and preventing development backsliding.

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Title: UNU-WIDER : Working Paper : COVID-19: mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure

URL: https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/covid-19-mortality-future-years-lost-and-demographic-structure

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this 14-page paper, by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, is to examine the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on two demographic-economic measures, namely, the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime working years, respectively, both in aggregate and for each death. It provides preliminary, inevitably hypothetical, estimates of these measures for Italy and Kenya.

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Title: UNSDG | Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

URL: https://unsdg.un.org/resources/shared-responsibility-global-solidarity-responding-socio-economic-impacts-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: UNSDG | Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health

URL: https://unsdg.un.org/resources/policy-brief-covid-19-and-need-action-mental-health

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 17-page document discusses how the mental health and well-being of whole societies have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and are a priority to be addressed urgently. It makes recommendations to minimize the mental health consequences of the pandemic and ensure people and societies are better protected from these impacts.

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Title: UNSDG | Policy Brief: COVID-19 and People on the Move

URL: https://unsdg.un.org/resources/policy-brief-covid-19-and-people-move

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 25-page report discusses the impact of COVID-19 on people on the move, such as migrants in irregular situations, migrant workers with precarious livelihoods or working in the informal economy, victims of trafficking in persons, refugees, asylum-seekers, and people fleeing their homes because of persecution, war, violence, human rights violations, or disaster, whether within their own countries -- internally displaced persons -- or across international borders. It provides four basic tenets to advancing safe and inclusive human mobility during and in the aftermath of COVID-19.

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Title: UNSDG | A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19

URL: https://unsdg.un.org/resources/un-framework-immediate-socio-economic-response-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 51-page report sets out the framework for the United Nations' urgent socio-economic support to countries and societies in the face of COVID-19. This socio-economic response framework consists of five streams of work -- an integrated support package offered by the United Nations Development System (UNDS) to protect the needs and rights of people living under the duress of the pandemic, with particular focus on the most vulnerable countries, groups, and people who risk being left behind.

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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: UNFPA Asiapacific | COVID-19 Technical Brief for Maternity Services

URL: https://asiapacific.unfpa.org/en/publications/covid-19-technical-brief-maternity-services

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 22-page Guidance Note offers a list of recommendations for maternity services during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a combination of World Health Organization guidelines, good practice, and expert advice based on the latest scientific research. The goals are to protect maternity care providers and the maternal health workforce, provide safe and effective maternity care to women, and maintain and protect maternal health systems.

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Title: UNFPA Asiapacific | COVID-19 Technical Brief for Antenatal Care Services

URL: https://asiapacific.unfpa.org/en/publications/covid-19-technical-brief-antenatal-care-services

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: As this 19-page Technical Brief notes, studies to date do not show an increased risk of severe disease in late pregnancy or substantial risk to the newborn from COVID-19. But the virus' impact on acute care services in settings with under-resourced health systems is likely to be substantial. The brief provides guidance on continuing to deliver a high level of antenatal care.

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Title: UNDRR Asia Pacific COVID-19 Brief: Reducing Vulnerability of Migrants and Displaced Populations

URL: https://www.undrr.org/media/47173/download

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page report highlights the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on certain groups of people, including refugees and migrant workers, and offers some key policy recommendations to ensure no one is left behind in COVID-19 prevention, response, and recovery. The policy guidance provided includes a recommendation to ensure that economic assistance and social protection target displaced and migrant populations.

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Title: UK pandemic preparedness - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-pandemic-preparedness

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document sets out how the United Kingdom (UK) prepares for and responds to an infectious disease pandemic, particularly a potential outbreak of pandemic influenza; and how exercises carried out as part of pandemic preparedness have informed the UK's COVID-19 response.

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Title: UK Biobank COVID-19 antibody study: round 1 results - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-biobank-covid-19-seroprevalence-study-round-1-results/uk-biobank-covid-19-seroprevalence-study-round-1-results

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page reports on an antibody study, undertaken by UK Biobank, to help understand the extent of previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 in different populations across the UK and whether they persist over time.

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Title: U.S. Blood Supply and the COVID-19 Response: In Brief

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46375

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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Title: Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital Admissions | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/trends-in-overall-and-non-covid-19-hospital-admissions/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report analyzed trends in total hospital admissions, and then separately analyzed non-COVID-19 admissions by patient sex, age, and region. It calculated actual admissions as a share of total predicted admissions in 2020 based on trends from past years.

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Title: Trauma Teletherapy for Youth in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adapting Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches

URL: https://keck.usc.edu/adolescent-trauma-training-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/169/2020/07/Trauma_Teletherapy_Final_2020702.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 53-page treatment guide specifically outlines a telehealth model in which the client interacts with the therapist via phone or computer-based HIPAA-compliant platforms. The trauma of prior victimization and the current COVID-19 crisis cannot be separated from the pervasive harm associated with ongoing social maltreatment.

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Title: Tracking global evidence-to-policy pathways in the coronavirus crisis: A preliminary report | INGSA

URL: https://www.ingsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/INGSA-Evidence-to-Policy-Tracker_Report-1_FINAL_17Sept.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Tracking Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/tracking-social-determinants-of-health-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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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: Tracking COVID-19 in Immigration Detention | Vera Institute

URL: https://www.vera.org/tracking-covid-19-in-immigration-detention

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Threat assessment brief: Outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): Situation in Italy

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/outbreak-novel-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-situation-italy

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This five-page report details the limited information currently available about the different COVID-19 clusters of cases in four regions in Italy. The risk associated with COVID-19 infection for people from the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and United Kingdom is currently considered to be low to moderate, but the risk assessment for the EU/EEA might change when more data become available. The risk of the occurrence of similar clusters, similar to the ones in Italy, associated with COVID-19 in other countries in the EU/EEA and the UK is currently considered to be moderate to high.

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Title: Threat Assessment Brief: Pneumonia cases possibly associated with a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/pneumonia-cases-possibly-associated-novel-coronavirus-wuhan-china

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page threat assessment details options for response and safety precautions regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and associated pneumonia cases that have been reported in Wuhan, China. It discusses a risk assessment for the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA), including the risk for travelers, introduction, and further spread in the EU.

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Title: The unequal toll of COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: Quantifying racial/ethnic disparities

URL: https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1266/2020/06/20_Bassett-Chen-Krieger_COVID-19_plus_age_working-paper_0612_Vol-19_No-3_with-cover.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 18-page report from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies explores racial/ethnic differences in age-specific COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. In all age strata, COVID-19 mortality rates were higher for racial/ethnic minorities compared to whites, with extremely high rate ratios (5-9-fold higher) among younger adults (24-54 years) more than three times the age-standardized rate ratio.

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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: The pandemic’s effect on the widening gap in mortality rate between the U.S. and peer countries - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

URL: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/the-pandemics-effect-on-the-widening-gap-in-mortality-rate-between-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report compares where COVID-19 falls as a leading cause of death in the U.S. versus peer countries (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD] member nations with above median GDP and above median GDP per capita). It finds that COVID-19 mortality rates are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., and that the U.S. nears the top of the list of countries most affected by COVID-19 on a per capita basis, surpassed only by Belgium and the United Kingdom.

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Title: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on noncommunicable disease resources and services: results of a rapid assessment

URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/ncds-covid-rapid-assessment

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report presents the results of a rapid assessment conducted by the Noncommunicable Disease Department in May 2020 detailing the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on noncommunicable disease resources and services.

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Title: The effects of COVID-19 on Non-Communicable Diseases: A Case Study of Six Countries - Bangladesh | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/effects-covid-19-non-communicable-diseases-case-study-six-countries

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Veteran Health Administration's role during the COVID-19 response - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

URL: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/the-veteran-health-administrations-role-during-the-covid-19-response/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Within the context of the coronavirus pandemic, this brief examines the role of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) during the COVID-19 public health emergencies and its capacity to support the broader community if called upon.

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Title: The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City | NBER

URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27021

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 21-page study tests the hypothesis that New York City's multi-tentacled subway system was a major disseminator - if not the principal transmission vehicle - of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive COVID-19 epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020.

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Title: The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery

URL: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/education/publication/the-state-of-the-global-education-crisis-a-path-to-recovery?cq_ck=1638565414093

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Risk Contagion Effect - Headington Institute

URL: https://www.headington-institute.org/resource/the-risk-contagion-effect/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page describes risk habituation, when our brain begins to numb itself to a perpetual threat, and the risk contagion effect, which is most often talked about in reference to "bear" and "bull" behaviors in the financial markets. It explains how this effect, along with risk habituation, can potentially muddy our judgment regarding the safety of our families, staff, and beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: The Public’s Role in COVID-19 Vaccination: Planning Recommendations Informed by Design Thinking and the Social, Behavioral, and Communication Sciences

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/the-publics-role-in-covid-19-vaccination

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 47-page report considers human factors in relation to future vaccines against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), drawing on insights from design thinking and the social, behavioral, and communication sciences. It provides recommendations - directed to both U.S. policymakers and practitioners, as well as nontraditional partners new to public health's mission of vaccination - on how to advance public understanding of, access to, and acceptance of vaccines that protect against COVID-19.

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Title: The Public’s Awareness Of and Concerns About Coronavirus | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/the-publics-awareness-of-and-concerns-about-coronavirus/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report provides information about the February Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll that gauged the public's knowledge of and concerns about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), in addition to exploring public opinion on how the outbreak is being addressed by the U.S. government. The poll found that most have heard or read about the coronavirus outbreak, including over half who say they have heard a lot; nearly six in 10 are concerned that coronavirus will affect the U.S.; and four in 10 are concerned it will affect their family.

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Title: The Physicians Foundation 2020 Physician Survey: Part 1

URL: https://physiciansfoundation.org/research-insights/2020physiciansurvey/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Part One of The Physicians Foundation's Survey of America's Physicians: COVID-19 Impact Edition focuses on how the coronavirus has affected physicians' practices and their patients. Among the findings in this 20-page report is that nearly 50 percent of physicians believe the coronavirus pandemic will not be under control until sometime after June 1, 2021.

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Title: The Path to Zero and Schools: Achieving Pandemic Resilient Teaching and Learning Spaces

URL: https://globalepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pandemic_resilient_schools_briefing_7.19.20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document explains how risk incidence levels, the creative adaptation of infection control guidelines for healthy buildings, and national investment in pandemic resilient schools can optimize operations, keep people safe, and restore our schools as trusted sites of learning in a densely populated world in which novel coronavirus and influenza epidemics are becoming increasingly frequent. It is co-published with the Harvard Global Health Institute, and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

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Title: The Internet and the Pandemic | Pew Research Center

URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/09/01/the-internet-and-the-pandemic/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This brief explores mental health and substance use in light of the spread of COVID-19, and discusses the implications of social distancing practices and the current financial crisis on mental health, as well as challenges to accessing mental health or substance use services.

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Title: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-lgbt-people/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Impact of Coronavirus on Households Across America

URL: https://www.rwjf.org/en/insights/our-research/2020/09/the-impact-of-coronavirus-on-households-across-america.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This series of five polls conducted by NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, finds that a substantial share of U.S. households have not been protected from serious impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across many areas of residents' lives.

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Title: The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2020 - tfah

URL: https://www.tfah.org/report-details/publichealthfunding2020/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This annual analysis of the nation's investment in public health concludes that the nation's public health system is seriously underfunded, and this lack of investment puts Americans' lives at risk. Furthermore, the impact of this underinvestment gets worse each year as the range and severity of health security threats continue to grow. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates this reality in the starkest of terms.

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Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Systems in the Commonwealth - World | ReliefWeb

URL: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/impact-covid-19-education-systems-commonwealth

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The Impact of COVID-19 on Child Sex and Labor Trafficking | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

URL: https://www.nctsn.org/resources/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-child-sex-and-labor-trafficking

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page fact sheet describes how the impact and consequences of COVID-19 increase the risk of involvement of vulnerable children and families in sex or labor trafficking, and offers information on what providers can do.

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Title: The Health and Economic Impacts of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Address COVID-19: A Decision Support Tool for State and Local Policymakers | RAND

URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA173-1.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 96-page document describes the interdisciplinary and multisectoral approach RAND researchers used to develop the COVID-19 Decision Support Tool, which is designed to fill the need for a comprehensive and systematic assessment of potential public health interventions to address COVID-19 and when to relax them.

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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: The Financial Impact of COVID-19 on California Hospitals: March Through July 2020 - California Health Care Foundation

URL: https://www.chcf.org/publication/financial-impact-covid-19-california-hospitals/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report provides initial estimates of some of the immediate financial and longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on California's hospitals and health care system. Absent additional public sources of funding, preparation for future pandemic and public health emergencies could add to underlying cost structures.

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Title: The Evolving Epidemiologic and Clinical Picture of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Disease in Children and Young People

URL: https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/1107-the-evolving-epidemiologic-and-clinical-picture-of-sars-cov-2-and-covid-19-disease.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 44-page paper reviews the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents six months after the COVID-19 pandemic started, susceptibility and transmissibility of infection in children and adolescents, potential for mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy, and clinical manifestations of disease (morbidity and mortality) in children and adolescents, including in relation to pre-existing comorbidities and vulnerabilities.

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Title: The Evidence Base for Telehealth: Reassurance in the Face of Rapid Expansion During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

URL: https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/telehealth-expansion/white-paper

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This white paper commentary is intended to help contextualize findings from two reports (Telehealth for Acute and Chronic Care Consultations, and Telehealth: Mapping the Evidence for Patient Outcomes From Systematic Reviews) to help decision-makers easily understand the relevance to current decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: The Economics of Vaccine Development and Supply: Responding to COVID-19 and Preparing for the Next Threat

URL: https://academyhealth.org/sites/default/files/ah_ri_economics_of_vaccines_brief_final.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page brief summarizes key points from a meeting convened by Academy Health in August 2020. Research and policy experts reviewed existing research on vaccine development, manufacturing, and distribution, including financing mechanisms to help ensure access to vaccines in developing countries.

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Title: The Critical Care Workforce and COVID-19: A State-by-State Analysis | KFF

URL: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-critical-care-workforce-and-covid-19-a-state-by-state-analysis/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: There is concern that the availability of medical personnel capable of providing intensive care could be a limiting factor in the care of COVID-19 patients. This Data Note reports baseline estimates of the number of active critical care physicians and nurses in each state relative to state population.

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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: The COVID-19 public health and economic crises leave vulnerable populations exposed

URL: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/08/13/the-covid-19-public-health-and-economic-crises-leave-vulnerable-populations-exposed/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This report uses a novel panel data set collected between March and July of 2020 to describe disparities in outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic across race/ethnicity and employment status. The evidence suggests a need for a more robust safety net, such as an expanded unemployment benefits program and more accessible public health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as more deliberate targeting of federal support to Black and Hispanic households.

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Title: The COVID-19 Response in Indian Country - Center for American Progress

URL: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2020/06/18/486480/covid-19-response-indian-country/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: The COVID-19 Outbreak at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke: An Independent Investigation Conducted for the Governor of Massachusetts - June 23, 2020

URL: https://www.mass.gov/doc/report-to-governor-baker-re-holyoke-soldiers-home/download

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Testing, Testing, (Phase) 1-2-3: Legal Considerations for Clinical Trials of Potential COVID-19 Vaccines

URL: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10483

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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Title: Telehealth Resources for Behavioral Health Clinicians During COVID-19

URL: https://files.asprtracie.hhs.gov/documents/telehealth-resources-for-behavioral-health-clinicians.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document identifies key telehealth resources for behavioral health clinicians to use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Substantial guidance is available on the appropriate and effective use of telehealth from a variety of sources, including the federal government and professional associations.

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Title: Technology for the Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Respirators Now Available

URL: https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/04/coronavirus-update-technology-n95-decontamination-and-reuse-4-8-2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This one-page document provides information about the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS) and how it could help organizations access additional quantities of N95 and equivalent respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: Technical specifications of medical devices for the case management of COVID-19 in healthcare settings - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

URL: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/51979/PAHOPHEIMCovid1920001_eng.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic (v.2) | Alliance CHPA

URL: https://alliancecpha.org/en/COVD19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The aim of this document is to support child protection practitioners and policy makers in putting the child's safety and well-being at the center of their COVID-19 pandemic response.

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Title: Technical Note: COVID-19 and Children Deprived of their Liberty | Alliance CHPA

URL: https://alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/technical-note-covid-19-and-children-deprived-their-liberty

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 13-page technical note, published with UNICEF, aims to provide detaining authorities with key information and steps to respond to COVID-19, including by instituting a moratorium on new children entering detention facilities; releasing all children who can be safely released; and protecting the health and well-being of any children who must remain in detention.

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Title: Technical Note: COVID-19 and Child Labour | Alliance CHPA

URL: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/covid19childlabour

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 10-page technical note offers guidance and information to practitioners and policymakers on child labor issues during and after COVID-19, and what actions can be taken. The COVID-19 pandemic could push millions of children into child labor and makes child labor an imminent concern.

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Title: Technical Note on COVID-19 and Harmful Practices

URL: https://www.unicef.org/documents/technical-note-covid-19-and-harmful-practices

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page technical note compiles some of the evidence on harmful practices in the time of a public health emergency and proposes programmatic responses during the COVID-19 pandemic on a policy level; systems level; in terms of evidence and data; and on the level of communities and individuals.

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