ASTHO COVID-19 Resources

Guidance Documents

Intervention Actions

• Roadmap to Recovery: A Public Health Guide for Governors (PDF) (Apr. 22, 2020)
• A Coordinated, National Approach to Scaling Public Health Capacity for Contact Tracing and Disease Investigation (PDF) (Apr. 20, 2020)
• A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the U.S. (PDF) (Apr. 10, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Providing Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (PDF) (updated Mar. 19, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Supporting Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (PDF) (updated Mar. 19, 2020)
• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Restaurant Restrictions (PDF) (updated Mar. 19, 2020)

Issue Briefs

• Using Telebehavioral Health to Increase Access to Care for Rural and Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 (PDF) (updated May 7, 2020)
• Analysis: Emergency Supplemental Funding to State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal Governments (PDF) (updated May 6, 2020)
• Regulations of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings During the COVID-19 Response (PDF) (Apr. 30, 2020)
• Leading Through Crisis: Supporting Workforce Resilience (PDF) (Apr. 28, 2020)
• Administrative Preparedness: Strategies for Managing and Streamlining COVID-19 Response and Recovery (PDF) (updated Apr. 14, 2020)
• Leading With Transparency During Times of Crisis (PDF) (updated Apr. 13, 2020)
• Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences During COVID-19 (PDF) (updated Apr. 8, 2020)
• Healthcare Surge Capacity Planning—Modeling as a Decision-Making Tool for Public Health Officials (PDF) (updated Apr. 3, 2020)
• CMS Interim Final Rule Review (PDF) (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
• Practicing Self-Care in the COVID-19 Response: A Guide for Public Health Professionals (PDF) (updated Mar. 31, 2020)
• Optimizing PPE Supplies with Decontamination and Reuse (PDF) (updated Mar. 27, 2020)
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Shortages: Considerations for Donation Management and Homemade Equipment (PDF) (updated Mar. 25, 2020)
• Preparing for and Responding to Hospital and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Surge (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Childcare Services for Essential Workforce Personnel (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Postponing Elective Procedures to Increase COVID-19 Healthcare Capacity (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• COVID-19 Ventilator Use and Allocation: Key Considerations and Examples (PDF) (updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Using Telehealth to Reduce Healthcare Worker and Patient Exposure - Considerations for State and Territorial Health Leaders (PDF) (updated Mar. 18, 2020)

Risk Communications Guide

• COVID-19 Communications Guide: Simple Answers to Top Questions (PDF) (updated May 20, 2020)

Training

• Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers (Apr. 29, 2020)

Videos

• Modeling Strategies for COVID-19 Interventions (Apr. 10, 2020)
  Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, speaks with Nirav Shah, MD, MPH, former commissioner of the New York Department of Health, about modeling and its use during COVID-19. Shah also discusses limitations with models, what types of data may be included, and some important considerations in choosing a model.

Blogs

• The New Frontier of "Digital Proximity" Tracing (July 1, 2020)
• States Support Rural Hospitals While COVID-19 Highlights Challenges (June 24, 2020)
• Ensuring Safe Access to Oral Healthcare During COVID-19 (June 24, 2020)
• How States are Bolstering a Contact Tracing Workforce (May 27, 2020)
• Health Equity During COVID-19: Top Strategies for an Equity-Focused Recovery Strategy (May 21, 2020)
• How States are Housing the Homeless During a Pandemic (May 20, 2020)
• A New Normal for Public Health Agencies (May 19, 2020)
• Getting Creative to Keep Americans Fed During COVID-19 (May 13, 2020)
• Congressional Efforts to Bolster Contact Tracing Workforce (May 6, 2020)
• The COVID-19 Impact on Our Mental Health System (May 5, 2020)
• COVID-19’s Impact on Pregnancy and Childbirth Policies (Apr. 22, 2020)
• Why We Need Race and Ethnicity Data to Beat COVID-19 (Apr. 22, 2020)
• What is Needed for Community Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Apr. 17, 2020)
• Avoiding ACEs by Helping Families During COVID-19 (Apr. 15, 2020)
• States Leverage Telehealth to Respond to COVID-19 (Apr. 8, 2020)
• Celebrating Public Health in a Time of Crisis (Apr. 7, 2020)
• COVID-19: One Step Ahead (Apr. 3, 2020)
• 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

• How COVID-19 Exposed the Gaps in Substance Use Care (June 15, 2020)
• The Next Surge: The Behavioral Health Crisis Following COVID-19 (May 29, 2020)
• Promoting Well-Being and Reducing Risk Post-COVID-19 (May 14, 2020)
• One-on-One with CDC’s Anne Schuchat (Apr. 29, 2020)
• 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

• House Releases Draft of Next COVID-19 Funding Bill (May 14, 2020)
• Senate Passes New Round of COVID-19 Funding (Apr. 22, 2020)
• COVID-19 Supplementary Funding Snapshot (Apr. 3, 2020) | updated chart available (published May 7, 2020)
• 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 Joins Comments to General Perna and Dr. Slaoui on Operation Warp Speed (PDF) (June 23, 2020)
• ASTHO Joins Letter from Public Health Organizations to Secretary Azar Requesting Extension of Public Health Emergency (PDF) (June 23, 2020)
• Public Health Organizations Joint Letter to Congress Requesting Appropriations for COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce (PDF) (Apr. 30, 2020)
• ASTHO Issues Contact Tracing Memo to Congress (PDF) (Apr. 10, 2020)
• ASTHO's Request for Additional COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Funding To Support Ongoing Needs for States, Locals, and Territories (PDF) (Apr. 3, 2020)
• ASTHO's Request for Additional COVID-19 Outbreak Emergency Supplemental Funding (PDF) (Mar. 17, 2020)
• ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership (PDF) (Mar. 13, 2020)
• ASTHO Thank You Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on LHHS Leadership (PDF) (Mar. 13, 2020)
• ASTHO, NACCHO, CSTE, and APHL Letter to President Trump Requesting Emergency Supplemental Funding to Prepare for and Respond to COVID-19 (PDF) (Feb. 24, 2020)

Related Materials

• ASTHO Pandemic Influenza Materials

Press Releases

• Organizations Call on HHS to Renew Public Health Emergency Declaration (June 30, 2020)
• As Unemployment Rates Rise, Thousands of COVID-19 Contact Tracers Trained Through New Online Training Course in All 50 States (May 15, 2020)
• New Tool Will Help Public Health Officials Estimate the Need for COVID-19 Contact Tracing (May 7, 2020)
• National Health Organizations Announce COVID-19 Contact Tracing Training (Apr. 29, 2020)
• State Associations Release Roadmap to Recovery from COVID-19 (Apr. 27, 2020)
• Funding Public Health Should Always be a Priority (Apr. 16, 2020)
• Scaling Up Public Health Contact Investigation Key to America's Recovery: New Report Finds 100,000 Disease Investigators Needed Now (Apr. 10, 2020)
• Nation’s Public Health Leaders Urge President Trump to Use All Available Authorities to Quickly Produce Testing Supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (Apr. 9, 2020)
• 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)
• 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 Following COVID-19 National Emergency Declaration (Mar. 13, 2020)
• Mississippi State Department of Health Officer Thomas Dobbs Testifies on COVID-19 (Mar. 10, 2020)
• ASTHO Urges Swift Approval of COVID-19 Emergency Supplemental Funding (Mar. 4, 2020)
• Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike Testifies on COVID-19 (Mar. 4, 2020)
• Governmental Public Health Leaders Request Emergency Supplemental Funding for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Efforts (Feb. 24, 2020)
• Public Health Departments Are Prepared for Outbreaks (Feb. 5, 2020)
• Health Officials React to First Coronavirus Case in United States (Jan. 21, 2020)