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Advisory: Hand and Environmental Hygiene: Preventing Pathogen Transmission
Advisory
Recent outbreaks of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) and adenovirus among children have raised questions about ways to prevent transmission when those affected are admitted to a health care facility. This advisory offers information regarding AFM, viruses that are currently implicated, modes of transmission and measures of prevention.
Project Firstline Pathogen Match-up Tool
This new tool is designed to educate frontline health care workers on the six most common pathogens found in health care settings.
Webinar: COVID-19 lessons for managing emerging infectious diseases
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will host a Nov. 7 webinar on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals and health systems manage emerging infectious diseases.
CDC offers strategies for conserving PPE supplies, confirms 13th coronavirus case in U.S.
As hospitals and health systems raise concerns over possible shortages of personal protective equipment, including respirators, the CDC continues to update its guidance and provide strategies that health care providers can use during the novel coronavirus outbreak now and in the event of a shortage of N95 respirators.
CDC updates coronavirus guidance for health care personnel
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance and resources for U.S. health care personnel working in environments possibly exposed to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Concerns rise for PPE shortages with coronavirus
There could be a shortage of personal protective equipment, such as masks, in health care settings due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Department of Health and Human Services reiterated.
AHA Members Only Coronavirus Webinar Replay - February 21, 2020
AHA webinar on conronavirus featuring Rebecca Bartles, executive director of system infection prevention at Providence St. Joseph Health in Washington state, which was the first health care organization to care for a patient in the U.S. with COVID-19.
3 U.S. airports begin screening for virus in response to outbreak in China
In response to an outbreak in China caused by a new coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Homeland Security announced screenings to detect ill travelers going through San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles airports.
HHS tracking drugs made in China; global coronavirus cases increase
The Department of Health and Human Services is aware of 20 pharmaceutical products made or with a critical active ingredient solely sourced in China, but to date is not aware of any expected shortages, HHS Secretary Alex Azar told House appropriators.
WHO meets on coronavirus, decision delayed on whether to declare emergency
World Health Organization officials met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the coronavirus – originally found in Wuhan, China – which has killed 17 people.