ASTHO COVID-19 Resources

Guidance Documents

Intervention Actions

• Preparing for and Responding to Hospital and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Surge (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Providing Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (updated Mar. 19, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Supporting Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (updated Mar. 19, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Restaurant Restrictions (updated Mar. 19, 2020)

Issue Briefs

• Healthcare Surge Capacity Planning—Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool for Public Health Officials (updated April 3, 2020)
• Analysis: Emergency Supplemental Funding to State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Governments (Apr. 2, 2020)
• CMS Interim Final Rule Review (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
• Practicing Self-Care in the COVID-19 Response: A Guide for Public Health Professionals (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
• Optimizing PPE Supplies with Decontamination and Reuse (updated Mar. 27, 2020)
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Shortages: Considerations for Donation Management and Homemade Equipment (updated Mar. 25, 2020)
• Childcare Services for Essential Workforce Personnel (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Postponing Elective Procedures to Increase COVID-19 Healthcare Capacity (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• COVID-19 Ventilator Use and Allocation: Key Considerations and Examples (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Using Telehealth to Reduce Healthcare Worker and Patient Exposure - Considerations for State and Territorial Health Leaders (updated Mar. 18, 2020)

Risk Communications Guide

• COVID-19 Communications Guide: Simple Answers to Top Questions (updated Mar. 25, 2020)

Blogs

• What You Need to Know About Federal Emergency Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 (Apr. 2, 2020)
• COVID-19 Highlights Need to Fund State Public Health (Apr. 1, 2020)
• Social Distancing: How States are Handling Business Closures (Mar. 25, 2020)
• Don't Stand So Close to Me (Mar. 19, 2020)
• 16 Key Considerations for Drive-Through or Mobile Testing (Mar. 19, 2020)
• State Emergency Declarations and COVID-19 (Mar. 5, 2020)
• Public Health Workforce Continues All-Hands Approach to Coronavirus, Risk to Public Low (Feb. 6, 2020)
• The 2019 Novel Coronavirus: What We Know (Jan. 23, 2020)

Podcasts

• COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need for Increased Public Health Funding (Feb. 25, 2020)
• Lessons from the Trenches: Leading During a Public Health Crisis (Mar. 27, 2020)

Legislative Alerts

• ASTHO Legislative Summary of the Third COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Package (Mar. 26, 2020)
• President Signs Second COVID Funding Package (Mar. 19, 2020)
• ASTHO Analysis of Second COVID-19 Supplementary Funding Bill (Mar. 12, 2020)
• ASTHO COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Legislative Summary (Mar. 4, 2020)

Correspondence to Congress and the Administration

• ASTHO's Request for Additional COVID-19 Outbreak Emergency Supplemental Funding (Mar. 17, 2020)
• ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership (Mar. 13, 2020)
• ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on LHHS Leadership (Mar. 13, 2020)
• ASTHO, NACCHO, CSTE, and APHL Letter to President Trump Requesting Emergency Supplemental Funding to Prepare for and Respond to COVID-19 (Feb. 24, 2020)

Related Materials

• ASTHO Pandemic Influenza Materials

Press Releases

• ASTHO Statement on Use of Face Coverings by the General Public to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 (Apr. 3, 2020)
• ASTHO Statement on Easing Public Health Measures Amid COVID-19 Outbreak (Mar. 27, 2020)
• Joint Statement: Public Health Organizations Applaud Funding for Data Modernization Initiative (Mar. 27, 2020)
• ASTHO Statement: COVID-19 Testing Needs to Be Limited to Priority Groups Until Sufficient Testing Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment is Available Nationwide (Mar. 20, 2020)
• ASTHO Statement: ASTHO Urges Swift Approval of COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Funding (Mar. 4, 2020)
• ASTHO Statement: Governmental Public Health Leaders Request Emergency Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Efforts (Feb. 24, 2020)
• ASTHO Statement: Health Officials React to First Coronavirus Case in United States (Jan. 21, 2020)