COVID-19: Update for AMWA Members
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Share your experience of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in your institution. How are you keeping your family safe? How are you handling the PPE shortage? Follow us @AMWADoctors as we share this information.
PPE For Healthcare Workers
WRITE TO CONGRESS: HEALTHCARE WORKERS NEED PPE’S
Template Letter. Look up your Congressional representative HERE.
National Effort to Collect PPE – tell your community about drop off sites or list your hospital.
AMWA is working with international contacts to source PPE for healthcare workers – please keep checking back for news on those efforts.
Meetings & Webinars
Informational Webinar with the COVID-19 Crisis Response Team at Taiwan’s Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Watch the Recording HERE. View the agenda HERE.
Read more about how Taiwan has successfully managed the pandemic: Response to COVID-19 in TaiwanBig Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing (JAMA), TIME, NBC
AMWA Spokesperson Dr. Saralyn Mark on COVID-19
FOX News: Can’t forget coronavirus treatments’ potential side effects: Former White House medical adviser. Watch HERE
FOX News with Dana Perino, Monday, 3/16. Watch HERE.
MSNBC with Alicia Menendez, Saturday, 3/14. Watch HERE.
MSNBC with Alicia Menendez, Saturday, 3/14 (with AMWA Board Member Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros). Watch HERE.
MSNBC with Ari Melber, Friday, 3/13. Watch HERE.
Fox News with Dana Perino, Tuesday, 3/10. Watch HERE.
MSNBC with Alicia Menendez, Sunday 3/8. Watch HERE.
AMWA Applauds the Heroic Work of Dr. Helen Chu
CDC RESOURCES
General Information and U.S. Activity Map
Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Discontinuation of Home Isolation for Persons with COVID-19 (Interim Guidance)
Healthcare Infection Prevention and Control FAQs for COVID-19
Preparing for COVID-19: Long-term Care Facilities, Nursing Homes
Other Resources
50 State Health Department COVID-19 Resources for Patients and Healthcare Providers
COVID-19 App for healthcare providers
University of Nebraska – a leader in “treatment, training, and quarantine methods for highly infectious diseases.” Includes protocol for UV germicidal irradiation to decontaminate N95 facemasks.
Coronavirus Tech Handbook for Doctors part of CoronavirusTechHandbook
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Pregnancy: What obstetricians need to know (American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) — Journal pre-proof
PPE
COVID-19 and Medical Devices: Safe Respirator Usage When Supplies Are Short
Publications
Position Statement of the ESC Council on Hypertension on ACE-Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (European Society of Cardiology)
Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to SARS-CoV-1
Testing
Sex and Gender Issues in COVID 19
Prevalence and predictors of PTSS during COVID-19 Outbreak in China Hardest-hit Areas: Gender differences matter (Psychiatry Research)
Sex difference and smoking predisposition in patients with COVID-19 (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak (Lancet)
Gender differences in patients with COVID-19: Focus on severity and mortality (medRxiv)
What are the risks of COVID-19 infection in pregnant women? (Lancet)
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Pregnancy: What obstetricians need to know (American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) — Journal pre-proof
Who is getting sick, and how sick? A breakdown of coronavirus risk by demographic factors (Stat News)
Men Represent Majority Coronavirus Cases (Yahoo News)
Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women (New York Times)
Do Women and Men Have a Coronavirus Risk Gap (Forbes)
Regulatory Changes During the Pandemic
Increased coverage for telemedicine: Medicare Telemedicine Health Care Provider Fact Sheet and FAQ Sheet
Taking Care of the Providers
Ten Percent Happier: (free for healthcare workers)
Headspace (free for providers through 2020 with NPI number)
Student Efforts to Support the Medical and Local Community
University of Minnesota Medical Students Pitch In Check out MNCOVIDSitters
University of Michigan Medical Students
How AMWA Members Can Be A Resource for Their Communities
A COMMUNITY RESERVE CORPS will help neighbors who are senior citizens and have medical conditions and should not leave their homes. Help them stay out of hospitals and clinics if possible. Neighbors can be sure they have food, supplies and medical care if needed!
Simple steps for community members:
1) Designate yourself to be a block leader.
2) Get contact information for your neighbors and share the list.
3) List if anyone is a health professional.
4) If anyone has face masks, gloves -offer them to health professional neighbors.
5) Share this information
PPE SHORTAGE
Calling All People Who Sew And Make: You Can Help Make Masks For 2020 Healthcare Worker PPE Shortage (Forbes)
AMWA Outreach to Other Countries
As a member organization of the Medical Women’s International Association, AMWA has been in touch with colleagues in countries around the world where women physicians are often on the front lines of treating COVID-19 patients. Through the American Women’s Hospitals Service, we are working to provide support both abroad and here in the U.S. To support this effort, donate to AWHS and designate COVID-19 support and the funds will be directed as needed.
