Prevention

This article describes the steps taken by the Kentucky governor to prevent churches from violating the state’s Executive Order prohibiting public gatherings over 10 people, but will allow drive-in services in which attendees remain in their cars. News reached the Read More

This article discusses the Kansas state legislature’s override of the governor’s ban on in-person gatherings of 10 or more at religious institutions, despite the risks this may pose to Coronavirus response efforts. This post also includes a brief discussion of Read More

This systematic review showed that quarantine is important in reducing incidence and mortality with respect to COVID-19, and that early implementation it with other public health measures is important to ensure effectiveness. The Cochrane Collaboration conducted a rapid review to Read More

This report from the team of experts that published the earlier Road Map to Reopening report describes the core capabilities and processes states need to build to allow our response to be more granular than the current, broadly applied institutional Read More

A new high profile article warns that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting black and brown communities, advising that data collection and sharing, as well as the implementation of services to address the virus’ disparate impact, can be improved in many states. Read More

This analysis from experts on the ethics of pandemic drug and vaccine research raises significant concerns about promoting the use of unproven off-label uses drugs as part of COVID-19 response efforts. While acknowledging there is limited evidence for its effectiveness, Read More

This report details a decision tree algorithm that may help guide decisions for protecting health care workers during surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the risk of infection with COVID-19 to healthcare workers, a team developed an institutional algorithm to Read More

This article discusses how police cited a church in Northwest Indiana for violating the state stay-at-home order after more than 30 people attended Sunday morning services. The church attempted to claim that they were offering an “essential” service. Indiana’s stay-at-home Read More

This systematic review and meta-analysis found that low certainty evidence suggests that medical masks and N95 respirators offer similar protection against viral respiratory infection in health care workers conducting non-aerosol generating care. Preservation of N95 respirators for high-risk, aerosol-generating procedures Read More

This article offers a roadmap to improving coordination between the states and federal COVID-19 response. Under the U.S. Constitutional structure, public health governance largely occurs at the state and local, rather than the federal, level, resulting in a “patchwork response Read More