COVID-19 Preparing for the Surge Tennessee April 9, 2020 Manoj Jain MD MPH Co-Chair Memphis and Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Preparing for the Surge What is a surge? Why a surge occurs? Our Capacity? Modeling? How to prevent? How to prepare?
STATE CALCULATION for SURGE- March 2, 2020
STATE CALCULATION for SURGE- March 9, 2020
UPENN Model https://penn- chime.phl.io/
Needs 2 x Hospital Beds 3 x ventilators 4 x ICU Beds
mContain APP • Crowding Alert • Encounter Number • COVID-19 Contact Alert (optional)
End Game COVID-19 1. Social Distancing 2. Testing Testing Testing 3. Contact Tracing 4. Isolation 5. Surveillance 6. Vaccine
Controlling COVID-19
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Situation Report April 9, 2020 Michelle D. Fiscus, MD FAAP Medical Director, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization Program
TDH Response • Incident Command Center activated Jan 15, 2020 • 85 Days in ICS • 35 Days since first case Clinician Call Line: 615-741-7247 8am-8pm CT 7days/week On-call overnight 7days/week for public health emergencies
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US COVID-19, April 8, 2020
www.tn.gov/health Posts Daily Updates at 2pm Updated regularly at https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov.html
State of the State of COVID-19, April 9, 2020 Deaths by Age Range 0-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81+ 1% 1% 1% 0% 5% 10% 32% 24% 26%
State of the State of COVID-19, April 9, 2020
Influenza-like Illness Surveillance
Sentinel Provider Network TDH partners with volunteer practices across the state who • provide specimens for influenza-like illness surveillance Our SPN is critical to our ability to understand ILI in • Tennessee and helps in identifying novel respiratory viruses Please consider volunteering for the SPN! • Email Cassandra.Jones@tn.gov for more information or to volunteer!
Remote Assessment Sites – Assessment should be available at all county health departments – Some health departments have drive-through testing capability • Sites open today (Good Friday and Saturdays) • Call the location for hours of operation https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/ncov/remote-assessment- sites.html
Resources for Deployment www.popcornetwork.org “Pediatric Overflow Planning– Contingency Response Network” Multi-institutional collaboration to help support staff offloading of adult patients to – pediatric facilities. http://covid19.sccm.org/nonicu.htm
Medical Reserve Corps https://www.tn.gov/health/cedep/cedep-emergency- preparedness/volunteer-mobilizer.html
www.tn.gov/health www.cdc.gov/coronavirus Questions
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