The Express: August 2021 Updates

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The Express: August 2021

This issue of The Express highlights the following new resources:

Pediatric Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Immediate and Future Implications (Speaker Series)
The Role of Support Services during COVID-19: ASPR TRACIE Experiences from the Field (e.g., physical, respiratory, and occupational therapy)
mAbs Calculator Tool

We invite you to check out our Hurricane Resources Page, Issue 10 of The Exchange (on preparing for and responding to wildfires and planned outages), and the floods, hurricanes, and wildfire sections in our Natural Disasters Topic Collection. As cyber breaches continue to affect healthcare, we encourage you to check out our Healthcare Cybersecurity Resources Page.

Please continue to access our Novel Coronavirus Resources Page, the National Institutes of Health Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines, and CDC’s Coronavirus webpage, and reach out if you need technical assistance.

New: Pediatric Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Immediate and Future Implications (Speaker Series)

ASPR TRACIE, in collaboration with the Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management (WRAP-EM), collaborated on a speaker series focused on pediatric-specific lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics include:

New: The Role of Support Services during COVID-19: ASPR TRACIE Experiences from the Field

This summary document includes links to resources that describe how support services (e.g., respiratory, occupational, and physical therapies; pharmacy; and laboratory) contribute to the COVID-19 response.

New: mAbs Calculator Tool

This new tool enables hospitals and healthcare facilities to make data-informed choices about the allocation of resources necessary to effectively and efficiently provide monoclonal antibody therapeutics to qualified patients (and, in turn, decrease hospitalization). Check out the related blog post.

Subscribe to the Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection’s Bulletins

ASPR’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) recently launched the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Infectious Disease Update. This newsletter can help you keep track of the 2021 Ebola outbreaks and other emerging infectious diseases by providing you with the latest news and resources. Keep your organization resilient and prepared for infectious disease—subscribe today by visiting the CIP bulletins subscription webpage.

Access Archived COVID-19 Clinical Rounds

Peer-to-Peer Virtual Communities of Practice, a collaborative effort between ASPR, the National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center (NETEC), and Project ECHO, created a peer-to-peer learning network where clinicians from the U.S. and abroad who have experience treating patients with COVID-19 shared their challenges and successes. Access previous webinars and special topic sessions and sign up today to receive updated information.