Title: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) CDNA National guidelines for public health units.

URL: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cdna-song-novel-coronavirus.htm

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document summarizes interim recommendations for surveillance, infection control, laboratory testing and contact management for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Its purpose is to provide nationally consistent advice and guidance to public health units in responding to a notifiable disease event.

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Title: President Biden's COVID-19 Plan | The White House

URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/covidplan/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

URL: https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-05-19/updated-interim-enforcement-response-plan-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) provides instructions and guidance to Area Offices and compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) for handling COVID-19-related complaints, referrals, and severe illness reports. This guidance is intended to be time-limited to the current COVID-19 public health crisis.

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Title: Enforcement Guidance for Recording Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

URL: https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-04-10/enforcement-guidance-recording-cases-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This memorandum provides interim guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) for enforcing the requirements of 29 CFR Part 1904 with respect to the recording of occupational illnesses, specifically cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Under OSHA's recordkeeping requirements, COVID-19 is a recordable illness, and employers are responsible for recording cases of COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

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Title: COVID-19: Client Screening and Work Flow Examples - HUD Exchange

URL: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5989/covid19-client-triage-tool-atlanta-ga-coc-example/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 and HIPAA: Disclosures to Law Enforcement, Paramedics, Other First Responders and Public Health Authorities

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-hipaa-and-first-responders-508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This four-page document provides guidance on how covered entities may disclose protected health information (PHI) about an individual who has been infected with or exposed to COVID-19 to law enforcement, paramedics, other first responders, and public health authorities in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.

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Title: COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital Reporting and FAQs For Hospitals, Hospital Laboratory, and Acute Care Facility Data Reporting

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance document details the federal government's COVID-19 data needs, explains the division of reporting responsibility between hospitals and states, and provides clear, flexible options for the timely delivery of daily data reports on COVID-19 testing, capacity, and utilization. The objective is to allow states and hospitals either to leverage existing data reporting capabilities or, where those capabilities are insufficient, to provide guidance in how to build upon existing capabilities.

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Title: Guidance for Licensed Pharmacists, COVID-19 Testing, and Immunity under the PREP Act

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/authorizing-licensed-pharmacists-to-order-and-administer-covid-19-tests.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This one-page guidance authorizes, under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), licensed pharmacists to order and administer COVID-19 tests, including serology tests, that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized.

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Title: DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide: Clinical Management of COVID-19

URL: https://www.health.mil/Reference-Center/Technical-Documents/2021/03/04/DoD-COVID-19-Practice-Management-Guide-Version-7

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The intent of this publication is to provide clinicians and medical treatment facilities (MTFs) with best practices based on latest evidence to optimize Department of Defense response to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title: PHLN guidance on laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) | Australian Government Department of Health

URL: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/phln-guidance-on-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-the-virus-that-causes-covid-19

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: No. 21: Declaring a Disaster in the State of New York | Governor Kathy Hochul

URL: https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-21-declaring-disaster-state-new-york/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs) and their management in England, including information about the status of COVID-19, and a definition of HCIDs.

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Title: COVID-19: paediatric surveillance - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-19-paediatric-surveillance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides information about how Public Health England, along with National Health Service partners and academic collaborators, has implemented a number of ongoing surveillance programs to monitor the course, progression, and outcomes of COVID-19 in children.

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Title: COVID-19: investigation and initial clinical management of possible cases - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-initial-investigation-of-possible-cases

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19: guidance for sampling and for diagnostic laboratories - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-guidance-for-clinical-diagnostic-laboratories

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page, updated on April 25, 2020, links to 10 resources that provide guidance to clinical diagnostic laboratories on the handling and processing of specimens for the diagnosis of COVID-19, and covers safety, laboratory investigations, and requirements.

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Title: COVID-19: background information - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-background-information

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page, updated on June 17, 2020, provides information for clinicians and the public on the epidemiology and virology of COVID-19, the infection caused by SARS-CoV-2.

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Title: COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2): E28 laboratory testing request form - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/testing-for-wuhan-novel-cov-2019-ncov

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19: guidance for taking swab samples - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-taking-swab-samples

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: These print and video guidance materials show to use swab testing kits in order to collect samples for coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) testing.

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Title: [Withdrawn] COVID-19: guidance for healthcare providers who have diagnosed a case within their facility - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-healthcare-providers-who-have-diagnosed-a-case-within-their-facility

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Coronavirus action plan: a guide to what you can expect across the UK - GOV.UK

URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan/coronavirus-action-plan-a-guide-to-what-you-can-expect-across-the-uk

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This resource sets out what the United Kingdom (UK) as a whole has done - and plans to do - to tackle the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, based on experience dealing with other infectious diseases and influenza pandemic preparedness work. It sets out what is known about the virus and the disease it causes; how the UK has planned for an infectious disease outbreak, such as the current coronavirus outbreak; the actions it has taken so far in response to the current coronavirus outbreak; and what it is planning to do next, depending upon the course the current coronavirus outbreak takes.

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Title: Strategies for the surveillance of COVID-19

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This seven-page document proposes an updated strategy for COVID-19 surveillance at national and European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) levels that specifically aims to reconcile the data needs for effective pandemic response with what is still feasible in countries and within healthcare systems under siege, while taking into account guidance issued by the World Health Organization.

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Title: An overview of the rapid test situation for COVID-19 diagnosis in the EU/EEA

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/overview-rapid-test-situation-covid-19-diagnosis-eueea

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page document summarizes how according to European Union recommendations, timely and accurate COVID-19 laboratory testing is an essential part of the management of COVID-19 for slowing down the pandemic, supporting decisions on infection control strategies and patient management at healthcare facilities, and detecting asymptomatic cases that could spread the virus further if not isolated.

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Title: Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings

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

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The aim of this four-page document is to provide an overview of major aspects of COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, contact identification, and contact follow-up in school settings within the European Union/European Economic Area countries and the United Kingdom (UK).

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Title: Mobile applications in support of contact tracing for COVID-19 - A guidance for EU EEA Member States

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-mobile-applications-support-contact-tracing

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 11-page document is intended to facilitate the dialogue between public health authorities and app developers to ensure that the main epidemiological and operational considerations of contact tracing for COVID-19 are taken into account, while also understanding the technological limitations.

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Title: Contact tracing for COVID-19: current evidence, options for scale-up and an assessment of resources needed

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/contact-tracing-covid-19-evidence-scale-up-assessment-resources

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page document outlines a number of resource measures to use in contract tracing for COVID-19, including the use of well-trained non-public-health staff and volunteers; repurposing existing resources such as call centers; reducing the intensity of contact follow-up; and using new technologies such as contact management software and mobile apps.

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Title: Contact tracing in the European Union: public health management of persons, including healthcare workers, who have had contact with COVID-19 cases – fourth update

URL: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19-contact-tracing-public-health-management

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This 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: Upcoming Requirements for Notification of Confirmed COVID-19 (or COVID-19 Persons under Investigation) Among Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/upcoming-requirements-notification-confirmed-covid-19-or-covid-19-persons-under-investigation-among

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page memorandum summarizes new requirements put in place to ensure appropriate tracking, response, and mitigation of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is reinforcing an existing requirement that nursing homes must report communicable diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and potential outbreaks to state and local health departments.

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Title: Interim Final Rule (IFC), CMS-3401-IFC; Requirements and Enforcement Process for Reporting of COVID-19 Data Elements for Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals | CMS

URL: https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/interim-final-rule-ifc-cms-3401-ifc-requirements-and-enforcement-process-reporting-covid-19-data

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released new regulatory requirements in this 12-page memorandum for all hospitals and critical access hospitals to report COVID-19 data elements in accordance with a frequency and in a standardized format as specified by the Secretary during the public health emergency for COVID-19.

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Title: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training: Guidance, Resources, and Sample Training Plan

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/php/contact-tracer-sample-training-plan.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This course contains a sample training plan, including training topics, that may be helpful for state and local public health jurisdictions to consider when designing their own training plan for COVID-19 contact tracers. Each heading in the training plan represents the learning objective for that section. After completing all training required by their jurisdiction, learners should be able to conduct contact tracing according to the established protocol.

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Title: COVID-19 Pandemic Response, Laboratory Data Reporting: CARES Act Section 18115

URL: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/lab/HHS-Laboratory-Reporting-Guidance-508.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This document provides guidance that specifies what additional data must be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by laboratories along with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test results. The guidance standardizes reporting to ensure that public health officials have access to comprehensive and nearly real-time data to inform decision-making in their response to COVID-19.

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Title: Biosafety advisory: SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/biosafety-directives-advisories-notifications/sars-cov-2.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This biosafety advisory is being provided by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support local risk assessments (LRAs) and assist clinical, diagnostic, and research laboratories in implementing proper biosafety procedures to handle samples that may contain SARS-CoV-2.

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Title: Updated: Public health management of cases and contacts associated with COVID-19 - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/interim-guidance-cases-contacts.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance is for federal/provincial/territorial (F/P/T) public health authorities (PHA) in the event that a case of human illness caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is suspected or confirmed within their jurisdictions. The strategy outlined in this guidance is containment (i.e., to reduce opportunities for transmission to contacts in the community) and is based on the assumption that the virus is primarily spread while the case is symptomatic.

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Title: Reducing COVID-19 risk in community settings: A tool for operators

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/guidance-schools-childcare-programs.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This guidance provides information for both public and private institutions providing K-12 education programs in the classroom setting. It takes into consideration the diverse needs of population groups based on vulnerability, ethnicity/culture, disability, developmental status, and other socioeconomic and demographic factors.

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Title: Summary of evidence supporting COVID-19 public health measures - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/assumptions.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: In order to develop technical guidance to support federal/provincial/territorial public health authorities and front-line clinicians in health care settings to respond to the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, the assumptions on this web page were taken to develop interim guidance documents. These assumptions are based on currently available scientific evidence and expert opinion and are subject to change as new information on transmissibility and epidemiology becomes available.

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Title: Federal, Provincial, Territorial Public Health Response Plan for Ongoing Management of COVID-19 - Canada.ca

URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/guidance-documents/federal-provincial-territorial-public-health-response-plan-ongoing-management-covid-19.html

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: The purpose of this plan is to provide federal, provincial, and territorial public health officials; Indigenous partners; health system partners; and other stakeholders with a common forward planning approach for ongoing management of COVID-19 in Canada. It promotes a long-term approach that covers immediate planning imperatives for the fall/winter 2020 period and thereafter until population herd immunity in one form or another is sufficient to bring the pandemic activity in Canada to an end.

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Title: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Case Report Form

URL: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/health-professionals/2019-nCoV-case-report-form-en.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Healthcare professionals should refer to this five-page 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) case report form to aid with the detection and reporting of COVID-19 in Canada. Its requests include case information, symptoms, pre-existing conditions and risk factors, exposures, and clinical evaluations, complications, and diagnoses.

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Title: Unaccompanied Children’s Program Field Guidance | The Administration for Children and Families

URL: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/policy-guidance/uc-program-field-guidance

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Order of the Governor of the State of Maryland Number 20-12-17-03 Exempting Santa Claus and His Affiliated Elves and Reindeer from Traveler Testing and Quarantine Requirements

URL: https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Santa-Claus-12.17.20.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: COVID-19 HMIS Setup and Data Sharing Practices

URL: https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/COVID-19-HMIS-Setup-and-Data-Sharing.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

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Title: Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

URL: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00427.asp

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Alert Network (HAN) Update provides a situational update and interim guidance to state and local health departments for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/COVID-19). It includes Recommendations for Screening of Patients for 2019-nCoV in Healthcare Facilities, Criteria to Guide Evaluation and Testing of Patients Under Investigation (PUI) for 2019-nCoV, and Recommendations for Healthcare Providers.

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Title: Notice to Health Care Providers: Updated Guidelines for Evaluation of Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Novel Coronavirus

URL: http://www.southernnevadahealthdistrict.org/download/epi/cdc-novel-coronavirus.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This resource is a March 8, 2013, guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), previously called Novel Coronavirus. It provides guidance to state health departments and health care providers in the evaluation of patients for Novel Coronavirus infection. The information is for infectious diseases specialists, intensive care physicians, internists, infection preventionists, as well as to emergency departments and microbiology laboratories. It was sent via the Health Alert Network.

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Title: Revised diagnostic testing for Zika, chikungunya, and dengue viruses in US Public Health Laboratories

URL: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/denvchikvzikv-testing-algorithm.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: Memorandum issued by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 7, 2016 that provides revised diagnostic testing guidelines for US Public Health Laboratories testing for Zika, chikungunya and dengue viruses.

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