Coronavirus COVID-19 Resources from CDC, WHO and AMA (updated 17 October 2020)

COVID-19 virus infecting people worldwide and changing our universe forever

The COVID-19 pandemic remains a serious global health threat - changing lives now and for decades to come. The following information from world leaders and U.S. governing bodies is continually updated.

CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SARS-CoV2 COVID-19 Information updates

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

CDC | COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Professionals https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/index.html

CDC | Masks 〰 Slow the Spread of COVID-19

How to:

Select a Mask

Wear a Mask

Make your own Mask

CDC | COVID-19 Surge – a spreadsheet-based tool used to estimate the surge in demand for “hospital-based services” — estimate the number of COVID-19 patients that need to be hospitalized, the number requiring ICU care, & ventilator support; compare to resources.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/COVIDSurge.html

CDC | COVID-19 Weekly Updates including testing, laboratory results, hospitalizations, and mortality:

Positive test, from respiratory specimens, (U.S.) for SARS-CoV-2 increased from 5.3% during week 40 to 5.4% during week 41.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

CDC | COVID-19 Symptoms & Testing

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/index.html

CDC | Publications on COVID-19—recent scholar information https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/publications.html

Global COVID-19 | CDC working locally and globally helping all member states: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/index.html

WHO | World Health Organization

WHO Home page | WHO Global News Daily | COVID-19 Q&A | Dashboard Statistics | Protecting yourself | Travel advice | Myths vs real Facts

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

WHO | COVID-19: Surveillance, case investigation and epidemiological protocols

Learn about contact tracing, reporting COVID-19 cases, demographics, transmission and more

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance-publications?publicationtypes=df113943-c6f4-42a5-914f-0a0736769008

WHO | Technical Guidance

Health Workers; Clinical Care; National Laboratories; Coordination, planning and monitoring; and more

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance

NIH | National Library of Medicine || Clinical Trials

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?recrs=ab&cond=covid-19&term=&cntry=US&state=&city=&dist=

CMS | Newsroom

CMS Fact Sheets and News Releases along with Twitter comments from Administrator Seema Verma

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom

AMA | COVID-19 Coding and Guidance

AMA addresses COVID-19 issues specifically related to physicians

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt/covid-19-coding-and-guidance

The COVID-19 Interoperability Alliance – A collaborative effort between healthcare industry stakeholders ... capturing clinical, demographic, and administrative concepts relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://covid19ia.org/

More information on COVID-19 →

Living with the Future of Pandemics - article by Te-Ar Healthcare Consulting

te-ar.com/post/living-with-the-future-of-pandemics-expect-diseases-to-proliferate-much-more-rapidly

Tags: #COVID-19 #healthcareworkers #pandemic #publichealth #tearllc

Updated September 28, 2020