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Organization Type: National Institutions

Organization URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/   

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public information about health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. To continue fulfilling this mission, NLM is collecting and archiving related Web content, which also serves to document the histories of health and medicine. For questions about our web archiving program contact us at nlmwebcollecting@nlm.nih.gov.

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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: 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: SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028

URL: http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2017/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 89-page document is a self-guided hypothetical exercise scenario for public health communicators and risk communication researchers eager to deepen their understanding of the communication dilemmas that could arise when medical countermeasures are developed and distributed during a pandemic. The SPARS Scenario features an outbreak of the novel SPARS coronavirus first identified in a major U.S. city in 2025. In the United States, an existing drug is repurposed to treat SPARS symptoms while federal regulators work with a pharmaceutical company to fast-track the production of a SPARS vaccine.

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Title: SARS-CoV-2 Genetics

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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Title: Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 34-page report describes the myriad factors that influence nursing workforce development and training for pandemic response, as well as the safety and support needed during pandemics at the government, system, organization, and individual levels. It also identifies gaps and proposes short- and long-term recommendations for ways to improve the readiness, safety, and support of the national nursing workforce for COVID-19 and future pandemics.

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

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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Title: Interim Estimate of US PPE Needs for COVID-19

URL: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/PPE/PPE-estimate.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This two-page document provides an initial estimate of the incremental need for medical personal protective equipment (PPE) of various kinds (gloves, isolation gowns, medical-grade masks, and N95 or similar ventilators) above normal baseline utilization for a single 100-day COVID-19 wave.

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Title: Global Health Security Index | GHS Index | 2021 Advancing Collective Action and Accountability Amid Global Crisis

URL: https://www.ghsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021_GHSindexFullReport_Final.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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

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Title: COVID-19 and the US Criminal Justice System: Evidence for Public Health Measures to Reduce Risk

URL: https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2023-02/20201015-covid-19-criminal-justice-system.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 33-page report summarizes the current state and future projections of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, details the impact that the pandemic has already had on the U.S. criminal justice system, and provides evidence-based recommendations on how to reduce COVID-19 risks to people in the system.

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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: 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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