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Beginning with the LHD Situation Report submission of March 4, two additional questions will be added to the Qualtrics portion of the LHD Sitrep. An answer to these questions will be required. The new questions are:
How many vaccine doses did you receive in the seven days prior to reporting?
First doses _____
Second doses _____
Johnson and Johnson doses _____
How many doses remain in your inventory as of the close of business on the day prior to reporting (Wednesday)?
First doses _____
Second doses _____
Johnson and Johnson doses _____
Since the launch of the BinaxNOW™ COVID-19 Ag Card, Abbott has continued testing for product stability to extend the expiration date and has shared these results with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Testing has been completed to support a shelf-life (expiration date) of up to 9 months. Abbott has published a list of BinaxNOW cards whose expiration dates have been extended to 9 months.
The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) is offering FREE ransomware service to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, including public hospitals, health departments and healthcare organizations. These entities can sign up for a free membership in MS-ISAC and sign up for the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Secure Suite service. Go to the MS-ISAC web page for more information.
The MS-ISAC, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aims to improve the overall cybersecurity posture of the nation's state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.
CIS is now offering this same service to private hospitals in the US.
The next CDC virtual instructor-led RealOpt© training session on vaccination and point-of-dispensing (POD) sites will be held at 1 p.m. EST on Monday, March 15. Participants will learn the basic components of RealOpt©, a computer modeling program that determines POD or vaccination site staff requirements and examines process efficiencies based on site-specific configurations. With this tool, participants will learn to manipulate existing POD and vaccine flow models and how to run and interpret the performance reports. By the end of the session, participants will have learned how to build or modify their own models to identify where staff should be allocated and how to eliminate bottlenecks and optimize processing times.
CDC encourages POD and vaccination managers, local and state medical countermeasure planners, and other preparedness planners to register for a monthly training session. Registration for the RealOpt© training session is required through MI-TRAIN. Registration deadline is seven days prior to the course delivery date. Additional training sessions will be held on the following dates: Thursday, April 22, Monday, May 10, Thursday, June 10, and Thursday, July 8.
Thank you again to those of you who were able to join the “Noontime Knowledge” COVID-19 Vaccine update, which was on Thursday February 25, 2021, and covered the “Management of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects.” For those of you who would like a review or for those who were not able to join the webinar, a recording is available at the link below.
Webinar Recording Link: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Noontime+Knowledge_2.25.21/1_tbavxa2a
The recording and slides will be available soon at our webpage http://www.michigan.gov/COVIDvaccine → Provider Guidance and Education → Noontime Knowledge → MDHHS Management of COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects.
The next “Noontime Knowledge” COVID-19 Vaccine update will be held on March 11, 2021 at 12:00p.m. Please stay tuned for a link to this event along with the topic which will be sent out via listserv and posted to the COVID Vaccine website.
The March PHEP Partners call will take place on March 11, 2021, from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm. The Microsoft Teams link is on the agenda.
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