COVID-19 Updates
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Interim Guidance for Syringe Services Programs
Syringe services programs (SSPs) are community-based prevention programs that can provide a range of services, including access to and disposal of sterile syringes and injection equipment, vaccination, testing for infectious…
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Information for Pediatric Healthcare Providers – Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
Who this is for: Pediatric Healthcare Providers What this is for: To inform pediatric healthcare providers of information available on children with COVID-19. How to use: Refer to this information…
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Topics for Contact Tracers
Background: This document contains a sample training plan including training topics that may be helpful for state and local public health jurisdictions to consider when designing their own training plan…
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Topics for Case Investigators
Background: This document contains a sample training plan including training topics that may be helpful for state and local public health jurisdictions to consider when designing their own training plan…
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Identify the Primary Components of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Training catalog Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers: The Basics of Contact Tracing – Lesson 2 Topic areas: Relevant terminology, define contact tracing, investigation and elicitation, trace, quarantine…
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Youth Programs and Camps Decision Tool
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Identify Jurisdiction-Specific Contact Tracing Tools and Protocols
This page may be updated as new resources become available. An electronic guide, self-paced asynchronous eLearning, or live training (whether through videoconference or a live course on a learning management system)…
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Schools Decision Tool
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Hong Kong shop offers ‘tear gas’ flavor ice cream
HONG KONG (AP) — Tear gas is among the new flavors at a Hong Kong ice cream shop. The main ingredient is black peppercorns, a reminder of the pungent, peppery…
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Growing tensions over China’s handling of coronavirus could lead to a ‘much worse’ trade war, investor says
A woman wearing a protective face mask in France. The country is slowly reopening after almost two months of strict lockdown. Pascal Le Segretain | Getty Images Escalating tensions over…