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July 27, 2023

Future Meetings

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Resources

GHA Coronavirus Information

COVID-19 information and resources.

Ebola

The Department of Public Health (DPH) offers answers to your Ebola questions.

State Epidemiologist

24-hour access to a State Epidemiologist: 1-866-PUB-HLTH.

CDC Information

Visit www.cdc.gov to stay up to date on current information.

Disaster Mental Health

The Georgia Disaster Mental Health website addresses the mental health components of disasters.

Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL) Visit to access behavioral health services.

SAMHSA: Preventing Suicide

Visit the suicide prevention resource page.

Georgia Project Firstline

Do you have questions about infection prevention and control that are eating you alive? Connect with Georgia Project Firstline and learn about best practices in infection prevention and available resources.

Tornado Damage to Pfizer Plant Will Probably Create Long-Term Shortages of Some Drugs Hospitals Need

The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say.

El Niño Will Likely Continue Into Early 2024, Driving Even More Hot Weather

More hot weather is expected for much of the United States in the coming months, federal forecasters warn, driven by a combination of human-caused climate change and the El Niño climate pattern.

Extreme Heat Will Drive Up Health Care Costs by $1 Billion Each Summer, Study Finds

Searing heat will be responsible for nearly 235,000 emergency room visits and more than 56,000 additional hospital admissions across the nation, according to a study by Virginia Commonwealth University and the Center for American Progress.

White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy

Under President Biden’s leadership, the Administration has taken significant steps to ensure all individuals have continued access to lifesaving protections such as vaccines, treatments, and tests, and that the nation is well prepared to manage the risks of COVID-19 or other causes of potential pandemics in the future.

The CDC is Preparing for a Winter With '3 Bugs Out There': Covid, Flu and RSV

For the first time this fall, the U.S. will have access to vaccines for another expected virus: respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Those shots, along with a new monoclonal antibody injection for babies and a third vaccine up for approval, have the potential to drastically reduce cases of the virus that typically hits infants and older adults hardest, experts say.

Threat Actors Exploiting Citrix CVE-2023-3519 to Implant Webshells

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders about exploitation of CVE-2023-3519, an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting NetScaler (formerly Citrix) Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway.

DHS S&T Awards Funds to PNNL to Research the Future of Emergency Management

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $1.67 million to the Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to conduct research on strengthening and reimagining the future emergency response structure.

A Year With the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: What Worked? What Challenges Lie Ahead?

Since the federally mandated crisis hotline's new number launched in July 2022, 988 has received 4 million calls, according to a KFF report — up 33% from the previous year.

NEWSLETTERS

ASPR TRACIE The Exchange - Issue 17

CIS Community Bulletin- July/Aug 2023

Disaster Mental Health Bulletin - July 2023

NGHD Emergency Preparedness Newsletter- July 2023

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Daily Digest Bulletin - July 2023

ASPR Healthcare Readiness Bulletin - July 24

Georgia Weekly Influenza Report - Week 28

HHS Office of IEA COVID-19 Update - July 26

Keystone Health Preparedness Digest- July 19

MESH Weekly Situational Awareness Brief - July 21

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - July 21

News & Notes - July 21

EDUCATION

Emergency Preparedness Systems Training:

Everbridge Training

GHC911 Training

July

Georgia Disaster Behavioral Health Field Response Training

July 27

November
National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference

Nov. 28-30

RESOURCES AND REMINDERS

Georgia Hurricane Response Hub

The Georgia Hurricane Response Hub has trainings and resources to help public health and health care professionals with their hurricane and disaster response duties.

Reminder: Identify, Isolate and Inform!

Identify, Isolate and Inform: It is important to continue to ask travel questions. The purpose of this notice is to remind health care providers about actions to take in Georgia when evaluating patients for possible serious communicable diseases!

Travel Clinical Assistant (TCA)

The Travel Clinical Assistant provides post-travel clinical information on travel-related diseases for 231 countries. Diseases with recent outbreaks occurring in the last two years are listed first.

ONLINE PREPAREDNESS TOOLS and

TIPS & TRICKS

GHC911

Go to the GHC911 homepage.

WebEOC

Add your facility to WebEOC.

Everbridge

Sign up for an Everbridge account

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Selelia Williams is GHA's Emergency Preparedness Communications Manager. Contact her at swilliams@gha.org, 770-249-4506 (office) or 404-200-5829 (cell).

If you need to reach GHA for a Disaster/Emergency Preparedness-related issue after hours, please contact  Mallory Garrett, 706-934-0711.

The Disaster Readiness Line Newsletter is circulated by Georgia's Healthcare Coalitions to our emergency preparedness partners.

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