Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Research Guide: Health Care Resources, Supplies, and Equipment

Information about the CDC’s stockpile of medicines and medical supplies to be used in the event of a public health emergency.

This Topic Collection focuses on plans, tools, templates, and other immediately implementable resources to help with COVID-19 preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, focusing on the supply chain.

CDC information including general PPE information and strategies for optimizing PPE supplies during shortages.

WHO guide for healthcare workers. 15 minute training.

CDC guide to PPE updates, who needs PPE, and how to use PPE properly. Includes PDF infographics and demonstration video.

WHO guidance on PPE.

This Topic Collection focuses on plans, tools, templates, and other immediately implementable resources to help with COVID-19 preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation efforts, focusing on the supply chain.

DC Health guidance on PPE conservation and use for COVID-19.

Virginia Department of Health guidance on PPE shortages.

This table is only for use when there are PPE supply shortages and COVID-19 is circulating in the community

CDC Covid-19 testing overview. Includes information about types of tests, who should get tested, how to get tested, how to use test results, infographics and video resources about testing.

Covid-19 test directory, test tracker, country testing policies, genomic surveillance, and quality assessment.

Includes public and charter school reporting.

CDC Guidelines

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Breakouts by state.

Dashboards, wastewater surveillance, emergency visits, etc.

Real time modeling and metrics for all 50 states and 2,100+ counties, including ICU capacity

Think about hospital caseload projections in a structured way. This tool is designed to make an easily modifiable projection of med/surge and ICU bed requirements over an outbreak of specified type, for a specified catchment area (and market share of that area, to model your hospital system).

COVID-19Surge is a spreadsheet-based tool that hospital administrators and public health officials can use to estimate the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This tool was developed by Predictive Healthcare at Penn Medicine to assist hospitals and public health officials with hospital capacity planning.

The COVID-19 Acute and Intense Resource Tool (CAIC-RT) is an interactive online tool capable of estimating the maximum daily number of incident COVID- 19 cases that a healthcare system could manage given age-based case distribution and severity.

The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel’s (the Panel’s) recommendations emphasize recommendations from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for adult sepsis, pediatric sepsis, and COVID-19.

Medtronic publicly posted design specifications for the Puritan BennettTM 560 (PB560) to allow innovators, inventors, start-ups, and academic institutions to leverage their own expertise and resources to evaluate options for rapid ventilator manufacturing.