COVID-19. Guidance for \Facility Operators and Families to Properly Clean and Disinfect Spaces. May 14, 2020.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released updated guidance to help facility operators and families properly clean and disinfect spaces. Developed in concert with the White House, the guidance provides step-by-step instructions for public spaces, workplaces, businesses, schools, and homes, and falls in line with the Opening up America Again guidelines. This call will include information on maintaining or restoring water in buildings with low or no use.

To view the guidance, click here: https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus/guidance-cleaning-and-disinfecting-public-spaces-workplaces-businesses-schools-and-homes.

On this call we will discuss:

·    Grants

·    Readying your business to reopen as a safe environment

·    Advising businesses that will be doing this work

·    Cleaning and disinfecting guidance by EPA and CDC (required to open business again)

·    Maintaining water quality in buildings with low or no use

·    Fast Track Registering Cleaning Products for certification for Maintenance Companies and Manufacturers

TODAY May 14, 2020 at 3:00pm EDT

You will receive call in information upon registration.

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National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Webinar: 1:00 pm (ET), May 15

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.

[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