Community Mitigation Resources

These ASTHO-produced resources were created to assist members in establishing and maintaining community mitigation practices. Documents include topics on restaurant closures, school closures, limits on mass gatherings, and maps to show mitigation practices across the country.

Guidance Documents

Intervention Actions

• COVID-19 Intervention Actions: Restaurant Restrictions (updated March 19, 2020)

Issue Briefs

• ASTHOBrief:How Health Departments Can Work With Schools to Improve K-12 Contact Tracing Programs (Oct. 5, 2021)
• ASTHOBrief:Summarizing CDC Guidance to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing in K-12 Schools (Oct. 5, 2021)
• Back to School: Parent Views of COVID Protections (Aug. 15, 2021)
• Indoor Air Quality in Early Care and Education Facilities (May 28, 2021)
• ASTHOReport: Partner Coordination Efforts to Strengthen Infection Prevention and Control Practices (April 9, 2021)
• Case Investigation and Contact Tracing (Nov. 17, 2020)
• COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Implementation in States and Territories (Nov. 17, 2020)

COVID-19 Response Hub

ASTHO's COVID-19 response hub features ASTHO's States and Territories in Action: COVID-19 Social Distancing Mandates Map, which contains restaurants and bar restrictions, essential and non-essential business designations, travel and quarantine orders, and stay at home orders and advisories.

Blog Posts

• Courts Considering Challenges to States Blocking School Mask Requirements (Oct. 21, 2021)
• Building Capacity and Dedicating Field Staff to Address Substance Use Disorders During COVID-19 (Oct. 14, 2021)
• FDA’s Approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Things to Know (Aug. 31, 2021)
• The Changing Guidance and Requirements on Masks in Schools (Aug. 10, 2021)
• State Consider Role of COVID-19 Vaccination for School Enrollment (June 23, 2021)
• Equity as a Pillar in Our Vaccine Rollout (April 15, 2021)
• Lessons Learned from the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands COVID-19 Response (Jan. 25, 2021)
• Emphasizing Seasonal Flu Vaccination Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (Dec. 7, 2020)
• State Policy Actions to Support Long-Term Care Facilities During COVID-19 Response (Oct. 21, 2020)
• Updated Rundown of State and Territorial COVID-19 Mask Requirements (Aug. 26, 2020)
• States Seek to Protect the Workers Who Feed America (Aug. 19, 2020)
• Congress Convenes Sectors on School Reopenings (Aug. 6, 2020)
• Getting Ahead of the COVID-19 Vaccine (July 14, 2020)
• Rundown of State and Territorial COVID-19 Mask Requirements (July 9, 2020)
• A New Normal for Public Health Agencies (May 19, 2020)
• What is Needed for Community Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic (April 17, 2020)
• COVID-19: One Step Ahead (April 3, 2020)
• Social Distancing: How States are Handling Business Closures (March 25, 2020)
• Don't Stand So Close to Me (March 19, 2020)

Podcasts

• BONUS: Fighting the Next COVID-19 Wave (July 30, 2021)

Videos

• ASTHOConnect APPLETREE COVID-19 Supplemental Project Presentations—Part 2 (Sept. 27, 2021)
• ASTHOConnect APPLETREE COVID-19 Supplemental Project Presentations—Part 1 (July 26, 2021)
• ASTHOExperts Rhode Island's Experience Building Cross-Sector Partnerships (June 17, 2021)

#MaskUp Campaign

Watch and share a public service announcement produced by ASTHO and the Big Cities Health Coalition encouraging people across the country to #MaskUp as an expression of their compassion for others.
Learn more about the creation of the campaign in an interview with Chrissie Juliano, of BCHC and ASTHO's Michael Fraser in Behind the PSA: Making the #MaskUp Campaign.

Press Releases

• Public Health Organizations Publish Lessons Learned From the Early Days of COVID-19 Response (Dec. 1, 2020)
• Urgent Action Needed to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 Nationwide (Nov. 19, 2020)