• How Companies Can Get Employees Back to the Workplace Safely

 

Texas A&M University:

• TAMU: Texas A&M University Architecture for Health Lecture Series  Fall 2020 (Produced by PBS)  

                  Topic : "SURGE CAPACITY: Health Care Preparedness  for all Hazards Response'

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Video:

• TAMU: Texas A&M University Architecture for Health Lecture Series Spring 2020 (Produced by PBS)

Topic: COVID-19 Pandemic: Ongoing Lessons Learned

By Gerald W. Parker, Jr. DVM, Ph.D., Andrew Natsios, & Jorge Vanegas, Ph.D.

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• From convention hall to field hospital: New York’s Javits Center transformed by coronavirus. (Video)

• Army helps make temporary hospital at New York's Javits Center one of the largest in the country.

 

My Move

• Homelessness During the Pandemic: What to Do and How to Help.

This guide includes:

• An Inclusive Infographic on Homelessness in America

• Local Resources and Ways the Community Can Help

• State and Federal Support Programs

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        Healthcare Design

• COVID-19: Coverage And Resources

• California County Sets Up Alternate Care Site

• Tucson Convention Center Preps For COVID-19 Patients​

• Regional Medical Center Constructing An Alternative Care Site On S.C. Campus

• Inn Transformed Into COVID-19 Alternate Care Site In California

• Implications Of COVID-19 On Healthcare Design

• Vacant Department Store In California Eyed For Possible COVID-19 Alternate Care Site

• Georgia To Reopen Alternative Care Site At Convention Center

• Texas Counties Eye Possible Alternate Care Sites

• Fast-tracking A COVID-19 Ward

• Alternate Care Facility For Non-critical Patients Planned For Georgia

• Michigan Field Hospital Pauses Operations

• Alternate Care Site Planned At Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital In Texas​

• Chicago Hospital Reopens As An Alternate Care Facility For COVID-19 Patients

• New Jersey To Close One Of Three COVID-19 Field Hospitals

• California Indoor Arena Reopens As COVID-19 Field Hospital

• Downtown Baltimore Hotel Houses COVID-19 Carriers

• Davis Partnership Architects Designs Mobile, Transportable Clean Units

• Reimagining Healthcare Design After COVID-19

• Wisconsin State Fair Park Turned Into COVID-19 Care Facility

• New Mexico School Gym To Reopen As COVID-19 Alternative Care Site

• HCD To Host Webinar On COVID-19 Engineering Challenges, Solutions

• Detroit Convention Center Transformed Into Field Hospital

• Missouri Hotel Converted Into COVID-19 Alternate Care Site

• How Commercial Real Estate Strategies Are Helping COVID-19 Relief Efforts

• WEBINAR: COVID-19—Lessons from New York

• Openings Delayed At Two Alternative Care Sites In Colorado

• Mazzetti Offers Guidance For Healthcare Facilities Management Of COVID-19

• Manufacturers Implement COVID-19 Relief Efforts

• HCD To Host Webinar On COVID-19 Lessons Learned In New York

• Canadian Hospital Accelerates Opening Of New Patient Tower Amid COVID-19 Crisis

• WEBINAR: Response Time—Healthcare Designers Help Combat COVID-19

• Northern Westchester Hospital Erects Field Hospital In Parking Lot

• Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida Transforms Into COVID-19 Field Hospital

• Designing For The Unknown

• COVID-19: The Path Forward

• Using Design To Support and Sustain Operations During A Crisis

• Solutions For Pandemic-Related Healthcare Capacity Issues

• Alberta Health Services Adding A Temporary COVID-19 Treatment Facility In Alberta, Canada

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        HKS

• Emerging from COVID: Where We Go Next​

• Working from Home During COVID-19: What Our Research Taught Us​

• How Health Care Systems and Designers Can Tackle a Public Health Crisis Together

• Taking Care of the Caretakers in the COVID-19 Era

• How convention centers became lifesaving hospitals for COVID-19

• Travel in the Post COVID-19 Era: Who Will Dip Their Toes in the Water First?

• Canceling the Social Recession: Guarding Against Loneliness While Social Distancing

• Can Design Help Overcome Loneliness?

• Coronavirus and loneliness: How to reach out to neighbors who need it

• How Health Care Providers Can Use Community Spaces to Improve Access to Coronavirus Testing

• Five Ways to Improve Hospital Infection Control as Coronavirus Tests Health Care Providers

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        Covid-19 Conversion

• How to Turn Hotels into Hospitals

• How to Turn High Schools into Hospitals

• How to Turn Public Assembly Spaces into Hospitals

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    1. ASHE (American Society for Health Care Engineering)

COVID-19 Resources for Healthcare Facilities

https://www.ashe.org/COVID19resources

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Topics:

• Recovery Resources​

• Re-opening Facilities to Provide Non-emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare: Phase 1​

• Managing water systems during COVID-19

• Air quality and infection prevention

• Handling indoor air quality concerns

• University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic Partner to Provide Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing

• Simulator helps hospitals prepare for emergency response

• Survey shows hospital staff are better trained to confront Ebola

• Alternate Care Sites – Utilizing Highly-Engineered Quick-Ship Modular Products for Current Isolation Environment Demands​. (Webinar, recorded)

• COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites: Before You Repurpose Structured Parking for COVID-19 Patients (Webinar, recorded)

• Technology for the Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Respirators Now Available.

• Portable Negative Air Units and Bag In Bag Out Units

• Templates for submitting inspection, testing and maintenance waivers to CMS

• ASHE Alert: ASHE issues recommendation for OR use during COVID-19

• ASHE Alert: Developing a first responder policy for COVID-19 units

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Health Care Facilities & COVID-19 Safety: What You Need to Know (Webinar, member only)

• Converting alternate care sites to patient space options

• ASHE issues recommendations on COVID-19 for facilities managers

• Negative Pressure Patient Room Options (member only)

• Innovative IV Pump Placement

• Airborne Contaminant Removal table

• The Joint Commission to Suspend Surveying in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak

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Articles

• Planning Successful and Safe Health Care Construction Projects During the Global Pandemic

• Weighing the benefits and challenges of patient cohorting

• Managing water systems during COVID-19

• Air quality and infection prevention

• Handling indoor air quality concerns

• University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic Partner to Provide Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing

• HHS conducts large-scale drill for transporting infectious patients

• Simulator helps hospitals prepare for emergency response

• Survey shows hospital staff are better trained to confront Ebola

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News

• FDA warns against using certain respirators

• CMS Takes Action Nationwide to Aggressively Respond to Coronavirus National Emergency

• The Joint Commission to Suspend Surveying in Response to COVID-19 Outbreak

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             Webinars

• ASHE COVID-19 Resources Webinar Speaker: Jonathan Flannery (PUBLIC)

• COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites: Town Hall – Lessons Learned from the Field PUBLIC

• COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites: Utilizing Highly-Engineered Quick-Ship Modular Products for Current Isolation Environment Demands (PUBLIC)

• COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites: Before You Repurpose Structured Parking for COVID-19 Patients (PUBLIC)

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             Guidance and Research

• ASHE Alert: ASHE issues recommendation for OR use during COVID-19

• ASHE Alert: Developing a first responder policy for COVID-19 units

• Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States

• COVID-19 Resources for Health Care Facilities

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Resources from ASHRAE

• Airborne Infectious Disease Management

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    2. AIA (American Institute of Architects)

COVID-19 Resources for Architects

https://www.aia.org/pages/6280670-covid-19-resources-for-architects

 

Topics:

• What can COVID-19 teach us about climate change?

• John Marx, AIA, on potential economic impacts of COVID-19

• April Hughes, AIA, on managing risk during COVID-19

• What architects need to know about hazard and climate risk.

• Alternative Care Sites preparedness​.

• COVID-19 relief policies: impacts for architects

• Design for Adaptability, Deconstruction, and Reuse​

• HDTS Special Report: Projected strength in residential markets set to be derailed by global pandemic.

• Alternative Care Sites preparedness.

• David Haresign, FAIA, on how his firm is grappling with COVID-19.

• Architect standard of care relative to site visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Disaster Assistance Handbook.

• Architecture Firm Best Practices, Resources & Templates for Communications and Temp Policies in Response to COVID-19.

• How Architecture Firms Are Responding to COVID-19

• A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers

• Architect's Guide to Business Continuity

• An Architect’s Guide to Virtual Practice

• The AIA Foresight Report and navigating through a recession with new business models

• Press release: New AIA task force will offer insights for adapting buildings into healthcare facilities.

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            COVID-19 media coverage

• Construction Dive - The Dotted Line: How will clients approach contracts post-pandemic?

• Architect Magazine - Architecture in Unusual Times

• Inhabitat - Architects design COVID-19 mobile testing labs for underserved communities

• Forbes - As Cities Re-Open, These Visionary Architects Will Help Improve Supply Chains And Disease Prevention

• Wall Street Journal - How Architects Are Already Planning the Future of Offices

• Minneapolis Star Tribune - LEED, other building certification systems, look to adjust to COVID-19 era

• Commercial Property Executive - When We Return to the Office, It Should Look Like This

• Hotel Business - Hospitality After COVID-19: An Architect’s Perspective

• Building Design + Construction - Infection control in office buildings: Preparing for re-occupancy amid the coronavirus

• CNBC - How post-pandemic office spaces could change corporate culture

• Forbes - Five Architects Sketch Views On Post-Pandemic Residential Design

• Columbus Dispatch - Coronavirus shutdown offers opportunity to rethink how we live

• Forbes - Ways Your Organization Can Help Hospitals During The Pandemic

• Archinect - Updated Alternative Care Site tool developed by AIA to be distributed internationally by US Department of State

• Dezeen - AIA outlines how people can safely return to offices post pandemic

• NPR - How designers are remaking spaces for our new socially distanced lives

• PBS Newshour - How the pandemic is reshaping hospital architecture and design

• New York Real Estate Journal - Workplace reimagined: COVID-19 to reshape the modern office experience

• New York Times  - Cooped Up Indoors? There’s a Reason You Don’t Feel Well

• Architectural Digest - One Firm's Response to COVID-19 Is to Create a Mazelike Park

• The Guardian (UK) - Sensor taps and no door handles: Covid-19 shows it's time to rethink public toilets

• Commercial Observer - Converting Columbia’s “Bubble” To a Coronavirus Field Hospital

• Bisnow Los Angeles - Billings Are Down, But Architects Are Planning Ahead Of The Pandemic

• Commercial Property Executive - Pandemic Unlikely to End Construction in 2020

• Dwell - Architects and Designers Weigh In on the Future of Work

• ArchDaily - The Importance of Antibacterial Surfaces in Healthcare Architecture

• Fast Company – Hospitals are bringing nature into stressful COVID-19 ICUs

• NPR – Cities That Heal: How The Coronavirus Pandemic Could Change Urban Design

• CNBC - Sports arenas could require ‘necessary renovations’ for social distancing, architect firm says

• Architectural Record - Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice

• Reuters - Buildings Closed by Coronavirus Face Another Risk: Legionnaires’ Disease

• NPR - 9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen

• Architecture & Design (AU) - Are you lonesome, tonight? – how some architects are tackling loneliness

• Manufacturing Business Technology - Buildings Have Their Own Microbiomes

• MLive - Designing Michigan coronavirus field hospital was like ‘combat engineering,’ architect says

• Los Angeles Times - Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same

• Redshift - 5 Insights as Architects Lead Hospital Conversion for COVID-19 Response

• Fast Company - How the COVID-19 pandemic could reshape hospitals

• Fast Company - How architects can stop COVID-19 from spreading indoors

• Commercial Observer - Designing Offices, Restaurants and Grocery Stores in the Age of Coronavirus

• Fast Company - Could this market design be the future of social-distance food shopping?

• Dallas Morning News - How will your workplace adapt to social distancing in a post-pandemic world?

• Forbes - Architects Forecast Change For Design In Wake Of COVID-19

• San Antonio Express-News - How will coronavirus change offices? Think new seating, more cleaning and hands-free tech

• Architectural Record – Architects, Engineers, and Physicians Develop COVID-19 Patient Isolation Hood

• NPR - Designing at a distance: Coronavirus is changing how Philly architects work

• Fox San Antonio - San Antonio councilman, Roberto Trevino, AIA, works to build ventilators

• Construction Dive - After COVID-19, there will be a new normal for construction safety

• Architect Magazine - How to Get Back to Normal, Using Design to Fight the Pandemic, More Mask Making, and More

• Fast Company - Architects develop a COVID-19 screening booth for no-touch testing

• Bloomberg - Sneeze Guards and Temperature Checks Are the New Normal for U.S. Retail

• ArchDaily - AIA’s COVID-19 Task Force Creates Design Guide to Retrofit Buildings for Alternative Care

• Fast Company - How to design for the dead and dying

• Construction Dive - As coronavirus necessitates technology usage, investors seem keen on Contech

• Los Angeles Times - USC leads an army of architects making masks for medical workers using 3-D printers

• The Guardian (UK) - How to build a hospital in nine days: emergency architecture in a pandemic

• Metropolis - 5 Ways Architects and Designers are Responding to COVID-19

• Architectural Record - Newly ormed AIA Task Force Launches Tool to Collect Coronavirus Alternative Care Site Designs

• Architectural Record Exclusive - New York City Halts Public Design Work

• Architect Magazine - These Architects Are Addressing COVID-19 Health Care Infrastructure Capacity

• Architect Magazine - Here's How Architects, Designers, and Makers Can Help and Volunteer in the Coronavirus Era

• Architect Magazine - The Need for More Testing and Mobilization, Design Tips for Infection Control, State-by-State Construction Mandates, and More

• Construction Business News - CannonDesign creates a walk-in testing booth for COVID-19 in the United States

• The Province - Dreessen: Let's use what COVID-19 has taught us to redesign our city

• National Law Review  - COVID-19’s Impact on Construction: Is There a Remedy? — Time Extension, Force Majeure, or More?

• Archinect - Introducing Archinect’s COVID-19 Guide for Architects & Designers

• Archinect - LA Mayor calls on architects to expand 3D-printed PPE efforts

• Architectural Digest - What to Do If Your Project Is Put On Hold or Canceled

• Architizer - How the Architecture and Design Community Is Helping Combat COVID-19

• CBS Los Angeles - USC Architecture Program Making 3D Masks For Medical Workers Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

• Architectural Record - Planned for a Pandemic: Rush University Medical Center Tower by Perkins and Will

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    3. Center for Health Design

COVID-19 Resources for Healthcare Facilities and Designers

https://www.healthdesign.org/covid-19-resources-healthcare-facilities

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            The Latest Information​

• Guidance for building a dedicated health facility to contain the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak

• Fangcang shelter hospitals: A novel concept for responding to public health emergencies

• 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission

• Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

• COVID-19 may transmit through aerosol

• Transmission Potential of SARS-CoV-2 in Viral Shedding Observed at the University of Nebraska Medical Center

• Risk of nosocomial transmission of coronavirus disease 2019: An experience in a general ward setting in Hong Kong

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            COVID-19 Facility Response Guidance

• AIA Health Task Force Resources

• COVID-19 ArchMap Project Submission

• Draft Guidance Document: IAHSS Security Design Guidelines

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             Financial Claims Recovery Service. FEMA claims recovery coordination and support

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            Additional Resources​

• MakingRoom: Online database connecting hotels with hospitals in urgent need of additional space

• Infection Control Toolbox: Evidence-based strategies, tools and best practices

• Financial Claims Recovery Service: FEMA claims recovery coordination and support

• Selected Relevant Research and Articles from the Knowledge Repository

• Secondary exposure risks to patients in an airborne isolation room

• Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Negative-Pressure Isolation Rooms

• Decreasing Airborne Contamination Levels in High-Risk Hospital Areas Using a Novel Mobile Air-Treatment Unit

• The influence of human walking on the flow and airborne transmission in a six-bed isolation room

• Airflow patterns through single hinged and sliding doors in hospital isolation rooms

• Natural Ventilation for the Prevention of Airborne Contagion

• HVAC filtration for controlling infectious airborne disease transmission in indoor environments

• Role of ventilation in airborne transmission of infectious agents in the built environment - a multidisciplinary systematic review

• The Efficacy of Visual Cues to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance

 

   4. CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

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• CDC Expands Negative COVID-19 Test Requirement to All Air Passengers Entering the United States

• HHS Announces $22 Billion in Funding to Support Expanded Testing, Vaccination Distribution

• COVID-19 Electronic Laboratory Reporting Implementation by State

• Federal Register Notice: Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19

• COVID-19 Travel Recommendations by Destination

• Operating schools during COVID-19: CDC's Considerations

• Limiting Workplace Violence Associated with COVID-19 Prevention Policies in Retail and Services Businesses

• COVID-19 Information Metrics for Response Leadership's Decision Making

• CDC releases consolidated COVID-19 testing recommendations

• CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on COVID-19 Friday, June 12, 2020​

• Transcript - CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on COVID-19 Friday, June 6, 2020

• HHS Announces CARES Act Funding Distribution to States and Localities in Support of COVID-19 Response

• Confirmation of COVID-19 in Two Pet Cats in New York

• HHS Announces Upcoming Funding Action to Provide $186 Million for COVID-19 Response

• CDC Launches New Weekly COVID-19 Surveillance Report

• CDC Issues Domestic Travel Advisory for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

• Testing in the U.S.

• Information for Healthcare Providers: COVID-19 and Pregnant Women

• Communication Resources for Travelers

• Interim guidance for homeless service providers to plan and respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

• Preventing the Spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Homes and Residential Communities

• Assessing & Managing Risk Based on Different Exposures to COVID-19

• Interim Operational Considerations for Public Health Management of Healthcare Workers Exposed to or Infected with COVID-19: non-US Healthcare Settings

• Contact Tracing : Part of a Multipronged Approach to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic

• COVID-19 Travel Recommendations by Country

• Cases, Data, & Surveillance​

• ​View COVID-19 cases in the U.S.

• Serology Testing for COVID-19​

• CDC Response Corps to Support State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Health Departments​

• Situation Summary

• CDC in Action.

  • Preparing first responders, healthcare providers, and health systems.

  • Reinforcing state, territorial, and local public health readiness

  • Supporting communities, businesses, and schools

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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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

 

Topics related to the community:

• Travel

• Schools & Childcare

• Community & Faith-Based Organizations

  • Guidance for Institutes of Higher Education

  • Resources for Large Community Events & Mass Gatherings​

  • Resources for Community- and Faith-Based Leaders​

  • Guidance for Retirement Communities and Independent Living​

  • Resources to support people experiencing homelessness​

  • Community Mitigation Strategies

 

    5. NIH (National Institutes of Health)

COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation
https://www.nih.gov/health-information/coronavirus

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Resources from NIH

• Promising Interim Results from Clinical Trial of NIH-Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

• High-dose influenza vaccine shows no additional benefit for heart disease patients

• Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients (Grants & Funding)

• COVID-19 Social Media Resources

• Clinical Trials Related to COVID-19 Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov

• Rising to the COVID-19 Challenge: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) (NIH Director's Blog)

• Coping with the Collision of Public Health Crises: COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorders

• The Challenge of Tracking COVID-19’s Stealthy Spread (NIH Director's Blog)

• Pursuing Safe and Effective Anti-Viral Drugs for COVID-19 (NIH Director's Blog)

• Antibody Points to Possible Weak Spot on Novel Coronavirus (NIH Director's Blog)

• Can Smart Phone Apps Help Beat Pandemics? (NIH Director's Blog)

• Dealing with Stress, Anxiety, and Grief during COVID-19 (NIH Director's Blog)

• Bringing Needed Structure to COVID-19 Drug Development (NIH Director's Blog)

• Genomic Study Points to Natural Origin of COVID-19

• To Beat COVID-19, Social Distancing is a Must

• Coronaviruses (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• Coronavirus resources (National Library of Medicine)

• Coronavirus news and resources for global health researchers (Fogarty International Center)

• In the News: Coronavirus and “Alternative” Treatments (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health)

• NIH Guidance on Travel and Meetings

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            News Releases from NIH

• COVID-19 Vaccine Development: Behind the Scenes

• Accelerating COVID-19 Research

• Pregnancy and COVID-19 Risks

• Full-dose blood thinners decreased need for life support and improved outcome in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

• Hydroxychloroquine does not benefit adults hospitalized with COVID-19

• NIH scientists discover key pathway in lysosomes that coronaviruses use to exit cells

• NHGRI researchers work with patients, families and the scientific community to improve the informed consent process

• NIH study aims to identify promising COVID-19 treatments for larger clinical trials

• NIH begins large clinical trial to test immune modulators for treatment of COVID-19

• NIH to launch the Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19, announce grant and contract awardees

• NIH clinical trial testing hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin plus remdesivir to treat COVID-19 Begins

• NIH expands clinical trials to test convalescent plasma against COVID-19

• NIH funds community engagement research efforts in areas hardest hit by COVID-19

• NIH awards contracts to develop innovative digital health technologies for COVID-19

• Substance use disorders linked to COVID-19 susceptibility

• NIH ACTIV initiative launches adaptive clinical trials of blood-clotting treatments for COVID-19

• Phase 3 Clinical Testing in the US of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Begins

• People with intellectual and developmental disabilities disproportionately affected by COVID-19

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding

• NIH ACTIV vaccine working group weighs role of human challenge studies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development

• NIH-funded study to recruit thousands of participants to reveal exercise impact at the molecular level

• NIH investigators hope CD47 study leads to broad-spectrum infectious diseases immunotherapy

• Experts identify steps to expand and improve antibody tests in COVID-19 response

• NIH halts clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine

• All of Us Research Program launches COVID-19 research initiatives

• NIH launches analytics platform to harness nationwide COVID-19 patient data to speed treatments

• NIH researchers identify key genomic features that could differentiate SARS-CoV-2 from other coronaviruses that cause less severe disease

• NIH-funded study to evaluate drugs prescribed to children with COVID-19

• Study identifies potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19

• Investigational ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protects monkeys against COVID-19 pneumonia

• NIH begins clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat COVID-19

• Coordinated strategy to accelerate multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates is key, NIH experts say

• NIH clinical trial testing antiviral remdesivir plus anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib for COVID-19 begins

• NIH-supported research survey to examine impact of COVID-19 on rare diseases community

• Study to determine incidence of novel coronavirus infection in U.S. children begins

• NIH clinical trial shows Remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19

• NIH mobilizes national innovation initiative for COVID-19 diagnostics (NIH Office of the Director)

• NIAID strategic plan details COVID-19 research priorities (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• Expert U.S. panel develops NIH treatment guidelines for COVID-19 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• NIH to launch public-private partnership to speed COVID-19 vaccine and treatment options (Office of the Director)

• Antiviral remdesivir prevents disease progression in monkeys with COVID-19 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• Investigational chimp adenovirus MERS-CoV vaccine protects monkeys (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• NIH study validates decontamination methods for re-use of N95 respirators

• NIH begins study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• NIH clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine, a potential therapy for COVID-19, begins (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

• COVID-19 workers get training to protect their own health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

• New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• NIH clinical trial of investigational vaccine for COVID-19 begins (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

• NIH clinical trial of remdesivir to treat COVID-19 begins (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

 

Topics:

• NIH Guidance on Travel and Meetings

• COVID-19 workers get training to protect their own health (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

• New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)