[MEDICALRESERVECORPS-L] MRC Updates: COVID-19 Response Efforts

MRC Network,

Thank you for continuing to share your unit’s COVID-19 activities with your regional liaisons and for reporting in the online system. As of this week, approximately 300 state and/or local MRC units have reported engagement with response activities – that’s roughly 36% of the national network.

Units continue to support a wide range of missions, including a sustained focus over the past several weeks on contact tracing, testing, and surge support for vulnerable populations (for example, patients in long-term care/skilled nursing facilities and individuals in homeless shelters). We’ve updated the COVID-19 Resources for MRC Units document to include a resources section for each of these missions as units continue to plan and support related efforts. Again, please let us know at MRCcontact@hhs.gov if there is a particular section or resource that you think would be helpful to add.

Also, the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) has been hosting a series of COVID-19 webinars covering a range of topics (all archived on the NETEC website). Their webinar scheduled for 1:00 pm (ET) today, May 15, is focused on rapid ambulatory COVID-19 testing. Registration is required.

Thank you,

Esmeralda

Esmeralda Pereira

Director, Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Program 

HIgher Education Program Community Call, May 15, 2020

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FEMA Higher Education Program Community Conference Call

TODAY

Friday, May 15, 2020

2:00-3:00 PM ET

https://fema.connectsolutions.com/hiedcommunitycall/

Community Call today is via Adobe Connect. Registration is not necessary. Click on the link to enter the room directly. Participants will need to use adobe audio. The Hi Ed conference line is not available for audio.

The Higher Education Community conference call is an opportunity for the Higher Education program to share updates as well as for the community to share information about projects, research, course development, achievements and challenges.

All are welcome to join! If you have a specific topic or would like to share an update that will take more than 5 minutes, please contact the Higher Education Program Office at wendy.walsh@fema.dhs.gov.

No formal notes of these calls are taken or posted, so please be mindful to capture the information needed during the calls.

Each call will loosely follow this agenda:

Roll call by FEMA region

1. Update on recent activities of the Higher Education Program
2. Highlights of community resources & opportunities
3. Community updates & celebrations
4. Review of next call date & adjournment