On February 25, the CDC released new mask recommendations for indoor spaces, relying now on community risk level rather than transmission rates for guidance. According to the new system, each U.S. county is assigned a risk level–high, medium, or low–depending on each county’s individual healthcare data, including COVID-related hospital admissions, bed usage and new cases.

One of the key technologies in Coronavirus detection is temperature scanning. The widespread dissemination of this technology allows elevated body temperature to be detected at the early stages of infection. The temperature scanning technology itself involves the use of thermal imaging cameras that can detect elevated temperatures from one to two meters away, allowing an easy non-contact solution to taking temperatures in particularly high-traffic areas.

Perhaps one of the most talked about methods of combating the novel coronavirus, contact tracing is gaining traction as a key component in the push to reopen the economy. Whether traditionally via public health officials contacting infected and potentially infected individuals or virtually via widespread smartphone technologies, there’s no question that contact tracing is critical in the identification and spread of Covid-19.

In order to help businesses understand how to successfully reopen their doors, the WHO has shared information concerning how to prevent the spread of the virus at work, how to deal with high-contact situations such as meetings and events, business travel considerations and workplace readiness in case infections (re)surface within their communities.

This Brookings article shares while initially, South Korea struggled to respond promptly to contain COVID-19, which led to a spike in the number of infections in the country. In late February, South Korea soon became the country with the second-highest COVID-19 infections after China. Korea has since implemented several measures to effectively “flatten the curve” and provide timely medical care to the infected.

This recent Brookings article shares that as we are facing a pandemic-triggered economic slowdown, U.S. school districts now need to consider doing something they haven’t had to do in recent budget boom years: Draft a budget that assumes they’re headed for a financial fall.

Communication Company (COM CO) CEO, Dan Schmidtendorff announced today that COM CO will contribute up to 5% of service fees (depending on the service or product category) for current and future projects through October 31, 2020 to a customer’s charity of choice. The approved charities must have active and approved COVID-19 relief efforts for assisting members of each customer’s local community.

As Rauland looks toward the future in these unprecedented times, we reflect on resiliency and compassion that the global healthcare community brings to work each and every day. Read their message about staying open to serve their customers.

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, and across every state in the U.S., school systems are shutting their doors. To date, the education community has largely focused on the different strategies to continue schooling, including lively discussions on the role of education technology versus distribution of printed paper packets.

The worldwide death toll has passed 55,000. The number of confirmed cases is more than 1,000,000, according to the map and dashboard from Johns Hopkins University, though the true number of cases will be much higher.

CDC is responding to a pandemic of respiratory disease spreading from person-to-person caused by a novel (new) coronavirus. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”). This situation poses a serious public health risk. The federal government is working closely with state, local, tribal, and territorial partners, as well as public health partners, to respond to this situation. COVID-19 can cause mild to severe illness; most severe illness occurs in older adults. >>Visit CDC Now

A CDC-developed laboratory test kit to detect 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) began shipping yesterday to select qualified U.S. and international laboratories. Distribution of the tests will help improve the global capacity to detect and respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus.