SHEA COVID-19 Response

Endorsed by SHEA, AMDA, APIC, HIVMA, IDSA, PIDS, and SIDP

• Multisociety Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination as a Condition of Employment for Healthcare Personnel. Weber DJ, Al-Tawfiq J, Babcock H, Bryant K, Drees M, Elshaboury R, Essick K, Fakih M, Henderson D, Javaid W, Juffras D, Jump RLP, Lee F, Malani AN, Mathew T, Murthy AR, Nace D, O’Shea T, Pettigrew E, Pettis AM, Schaffzin J, Shenoy ES, Vaishampayan J, Wiley Z, Wright SB, Yokoe D, Young H. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Cambridge University Press; 2021;1–46.
• Implementation Tool Kit
• Implementation Quick Guide (pdf)
• Press release: National Organizations in Epidemiology and Infection Prevention say COVID-19 Vaccines Should be Required for Healthcare Personnel

SHEA State of the Pandemic Commentaries

• Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals
• COVID-19 Tool Kit
  • Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Practices
  • Consulting during COVID-19
  • Organizations and Agencies’ COVID-19 Guidelines
  • Long-Term Care and Nursing Home Resources
• SHEA Statement for Healthcare Settings Preparing for COVID-19 Vaccinations (updated Jan. 22, 2021; partial update July 12, 2021)

Podcasts

(available via LearningCE, iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify)

• What We Know Now Series
• Allies in Infection Prevention Series

Webinars

(presentation and slides available via LearningCE; Town Halls also available via Facebook Live)

• COVID-19 Town Halls
• Advising Schools during COVID-19: Healthcare Epidemiology & Implementation Science
• Implementation of Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) for COVID-19
• Healthcare Facility Outbreak Preparedness

Bi-weekly email with SHEA updates, federal agency news, guidance, and guidelines, education and events, trade press, journal articles, white papers, news highlights, and featured social media.

Prevention Course in HAI Knowledge and Control (Prevention CHKC)

• 11 expert-authored, interactive, half-hour modules on hand hygiene, environmental control, device-associated infection prevention, pneumonia prevention, and more
• 6.75 credit hours for frontline personnel

SHEA/CDC Outbreak Response Training Program (ORTP)

(no cost, publicly available)

• Outbreak Response Tool Kit:
  • Incident Management
  • IPC Strategies and Emerging Pathogens
  • Communication, Implementation, and Negotiation
• Decision Simulations:
  • HICS: How to Lead When a Crisis Occurs
  • Defending Against Superbugs: An Interactive CRE Outbreak
• Audiocasts
  • Recordings of the ORTP Regional Training Workshop
  • HICS, Policy Development, Media Communication, Preparedness, Case Studies (Ebola, MERS-CoV, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, SARS)
• Effective Communication during a Crisis Webinars

Advocacy

• SHEA-led campaign for the Trump Administration to use the full authority the Defense Production Act (DPA) to create a sustainable and predictable domestic supply personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Signatory on letter by the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association to alleviate shortage of ventilators and PPE.
• Signatory on letter from the Coalition for Health Funding advocating for funding priorities for the fourth phase COVID-19 emergency response appropriations bill.