COVID-19 Information

CSEMS Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Protocol Revised 1/6/2021

COVID-19 Protocol Scan Card – Quick Reference wallet size card with QR Code linked to the latest COVID-19 Protocol

Instructional Guide for Protocol Document Usage on Android Devices

Instructional Guide for Protocol Document Usage on Apple Devices

Covid-19 Testing

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IHME | COVID-19 Projections

Explore hospital bed use, need for intensive care beds, and ventilator use due to COVID-19 based on projected deaths

Virginia Hospital COVID-19 Dashboard

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Coronavirus – 2019 (COVID-19)

The Office of EMS continues to monitor the ongoing situation regarding the spread of COVID-19. Information on various topics related to the COVID-19. This includes personal protective equipment, decontamination, signs and symptoms, and other information designed to assist public safety agencies in responding to this incident.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.

CHIME-Penn Model

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.

Data include both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 reported to CDC or tested at CDC since January 21, 2020, with the exception of testing results for persons repatriated to the United States from Wuhan, China and Japan. State and local public health departments are now testing and publicly reporting their cases.

CDC – Recommended Guidance for Extended Use and Limited Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Healthcare Settings – NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topic

This document recommends practices for extended use and limited reuse of NIOSH-certified N95 filtering facepiece respirators (commonly called “N95 respirators”). The recommendations are intended for use by professionals who manage respiratory protection programs in healthcare institutions to protect health care workers from job-related risks of exposure to infectious respiratory illnesses.

Alternate Strategies for PPE in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

These crisis capacity or alternate strategies accompany and build on the conventional and contingency capacity strategies. The following measures are not commensurate with current U.S. standards of care. However, individual measures or a combination of these measures may need to be considered during periods of expected or known N95 respirator shortages.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Disposable filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are not approved for routine decontamination and reuse as standard of care. However, FFR decontamination and reuse may need to be considered as a crisis capacity strategy to ensure continued availability. Based on the limited research available, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, vaporous hydrogen peroxide, and moist heat showed the most promise as potential methods to decontaminate FFRs.