Reports and Publications

This report captures lessons learned from a Table Top Exercise at the 2020 Munich Security Conference.  The Table Top Exercise was on High-Consequence Biological Threats and conducted prior to the COVID pandemic

Overview: The training describes the risk assessment exercise that WHO has developed to aid health authorities and event organizers in their planning for upcoming mass gatherings amid the current COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of the guideline was to provide an evidence-informed recommendation on whether mass drug administration of azithromycin, as a public health intervention for the reduction of under-five mortality, should (a) be rolled out universally in low-and middle-income countries, (b) be applied o

This review highlights SARS-CoV-2 and its path from feces to wastewater treatment plants. It analyses the viral load found in both feces and wastewater as well as the wastewater disinfection process and its impact on virus inactivation.

A guide to provide best practices and recommendations for meat processing facilities to minimize the risk COVID-19 poses to employees and the community and to reduce disruptions to business operations, including checklists for COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies.

The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly.

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The United States Department of Homeland Security has developed a tool to calculate the decay of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces.  The calculator can be accessed via the provided link.  

Google has released a tool that generates reports that chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.