COVID-19 Updates

LifeFlight Updates on COVID in Maine Executive Director Tom Judge and Medical Director Norm Dinerman, MD

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Vaccine Information

Reliable information to help understand the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines

• COVID-19 vaccines: everything you need to know – Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
• Different COVID-19 Vaccines – CDC
• COVID-19 vaccine guidance from Mayo Clinic – Mayo Clinic
• Covid-19 Vaccinations: County and State Tracker – The New York Times
• When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated – CDC

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Reliable Sources of Information

See a list of reliable and regularly updated sources of information about the COVID-19 pandemic

Sources for information on the current COVID-19 situation in Maine: 

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | Airborne Disease Surveillance Epidemiology Program – MeCDC | Maine DHHS
• U.S. Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Trends – Mayo Clinic
• Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research – Our World in Data
• Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count – The New York Times
• COVID-19 Map – Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Modeling Data:

This is our primary source for planning data:

• https://c19hcc.org/
• https://c19hcc.org/resources/decision-support/
• https://covidtracking.com/ 

Other sources:

• Ro rate of infection: https://rt.live/

• Social Mobility: https://www.safegraph.com/dashboard/covid19-shelter-in-place?s=US&d=07-07-2020&t=counties&m=percent

Risks for surge:  Harvard Global Health Institute

• https://globalepidemics.org/
• https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/

Other modeling sources:

• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summary.html
• https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
• https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA173-1/tool.html#current-impact
• https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
• https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
• https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

Clinical Care:

National Emerging Disease Resource Center

• https://netec.org/

AAMC CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) CLINICAL GUIDANCE REPOSITORY:

• https://www.aamc.org/coronavirus-covid-19-clinical-guidance-repository

 Project ECHO: University of New Mexico

• https://echo.unm.edu/covid-19/sessions/hhs-aspr-clinical-rounds

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COVID and the Air Ambulance Industry

Resetting best practices and protective measures in the fight against COVID-19

This article from ROTOR magazine looks at how COVID has affected the national air ambulance industry and how air medical operators have reset best practices and protective measures in the fight against this unrelenting disease.

https://www.rotor.org/resource?ArtMID=493&ArticleID=6729

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