Resources

Audience

Healthcare professionals, physicians, clinicians, practitioners, nurses

Key Takeaways

• Weekly surveillance of COVID-19 and influenza like illnesses, including RSV
• Links to other COVID-19 resources including COVID-19 provider hub, testing, and reporting
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Audience

Clinicians, physicians, nurses, healthcare professionals

Key Takeaways

• Provider hub for monkeypox
• Latest updates on monkeypox, including information on clinical evaluation, reporting, testing, and vaccines
• Clinical consultation-provider line 
• Information on infection control, PPE, specimen collection, healthcare worker exposure, and home isolation

Audience

General public, healthcare professionals

Key Takeaways

• Travel information for Uganda
• General information on Ebola virus disease
• Links to additional CDC resources for the Ebola virus disease

Audience

Those working in emergency medical services (EMS) providing pre-hospital care: 911 Providers, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT), Paramedics, Medical Dispatch

Key Takeaways

• Provides patient assessment and transportation guidelines on patients suspected with the Ebola Virus Disease
• Includes information on disease symptomatology and level of personal protective equipment
• Provides instructions on notification

Audience

All healthcare personnel

Key Takeaways

• Information on how to receive the monkeypox vaccine
• Includes current number of probable and confirmed cases in LA County
• General information on monkeypox disease including signs and symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment.
• Information on testing for monkeypox

Audience

Health care employers, health care administrators, health care workers

Key Takeaways

• Provides information specific to California regulations on COVID-19 for health care worker safety 
• Lists all current and revised Cal/OSHA emergency temporary standards on COVID-19 infection prevention
• Links to Cal/OSHA and Statewide guidance and resources on COVID-19 by industry including health care facilities and mortuary and funeral homes

Audience

All healthcare personnel wanting to know more about the monkeypox disease.

Key Takeaways

• Information on monkeypox from California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
• Provides updated number of probable and confirmed cases in California
• Includes a comparison table between monkeypox and COVID-19

Audience

Healthcare personnel seeking guidance on SARS-CoV-2 testing

Key Takeaways

This document provides guidance on the different types of viral tests for SARS-CoV-2 available in the United States and their intended uses. It does not address issues regarding payment for or insurance coverage of such testing.

Audience

This guide is intended to help government and non-governmental leaders, local emergency medical services, emergency managers, hospitals, healthcare providers, laboratories, environmental services workers, waste management companies and workers, and related stakeholders safely handle, inactivate, transport, and dispose of Category A waste.

Key Takeaways

• Provides key information about procedures and regulations regarding Category A waste
• Addresses planning for Category A waste management activities, including considerations for developing, evaluating, and revising organizational (e.g., hospital) or jurisdictional (e.g., state, territorial, or local) plans
• Presented in sections that break down waste management activities according to responsibilities as waste is moved from its point of generation to its place of disposal
• Appendices provide users with information about pathogens classified as Category A infectious substances, decision making for waste treatment and disposal activities, communicating effectively about safe waste management and associated issues, and additional related resources.

Audience

Healthcare facilities sending specimens to LACDPH

Key Takeaways

LACDPH official forms used for requesting testing of specimens at the county public health laboratory.