Revealing the Toll of COVID-19: A Technical Package for Rapid Mortality Surveillance and Epidemic Response
Practical guidance to implement rapid mortality surveillance (RMS) and measure excess mortality in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prévention et contrôle des infections contre la maladie à virus Ebola et la COVID-19
Fiche d’information sur la prévention et le contrôle des infections contre la maladie à virus Ebola et la COVID-19.
Measures to Improve COVID-19 Response
A step- by-step framework to use in analyzing and improving their systems of epidemic control. This outlines targets for key completeness measures and time intervals between activities, based on mathematical models of case investigation and contact tracing, to effectively reduce COVID-19 transmission.
The true cost of failing to protect health care workers
A landmark study from the World Bank and Resolve to Save Lives used a “cost-of-illness” methodology to measure the broader socio-economic costs of health care worker infections and deaths from COVID-19—including the costs of disruption to essential health services due to a compromised health workforce.
An interactive guide to help people navigate COVID-19 risk
We partnered with the New York Times and Johns Hopkins University to create an interactive guide to help U.S. residents navigate COVID-19 risk.
Interactive online guide in the New York Times helps people understand and navigate COVID-19 risk across the U.S.
Our experts helped deliver consistent, data-driven interpretations of risk with recommended precautions during COVID-19.
Health care worker training at scale: reflections from COVID-19
Mobile-optimized, case-based online courses keep health care workers up to date more effectively.
“Voices” of long COVID stress the urgency of COVID-19 vaccination
This awareness campaign spotlights COVID long-haulers to increase vaccine uptake.
Getting shots into arms: A vaccine equity strategy in North Carolina
A community-focused approach to vaccination in underserved census tracts.
CBS News: As highly transmissible Omicron subvariant spreads, what do Americans need to know?
The World Health Organization said the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant known as BA.2 is continuing to fuel a rise in COVID-19 cases in 18 European countries. Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director and the president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, explained to CBS News how concerned the U.S. should be about a new wave.
Op-Ed: The next Covid wave is probably already on Its way
The most important lesson of the Covid pandemic is that the only constant is change. Variants spread, cases surge and abate, treatments change and knowledge expands. This means that we — the public, elected officials and public health leaders — need to learn constantly and adapt quickly, acting on the insight that no one policy response is likely to stay effective for long.
Today: Has the COVID-19 pandemic made the world more prepared for the future
Two years ago this week, the world changed after the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic. After two years of living through COVID-19, have we learned important lessons that will help us be better prepared for future diseases? NBC’s Dr. John Torres talked with Dr. Tom Frieden on this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
Former CDC directors: Coordinating our nation’s health data will save lives
As the SARS-CoV-2 surge recedes, we need to apply the lessons we’ve learned during this pandemic to improve our response to the next health emergency. One major obstacle has been the lack of health data needed to track the pandemic and assess its impact across the complex U.S. healthcare and public health ecosystem. This lack of timely, standardized data hampered our ability to respond rapidly and effectively to the pandemic.
Op-Ed: Moderna and Pfizer’s ethical duties go beyond just creating vaccines
Every year, cardiovascular disease kills twice as many people, at a younger average age, as Covid has at its worst, and since 2020, there’s been a surge in fatalities from heart disease and stroke in the U.S.
Expanding quality-assured COVID-19 testing capacity across Africa
COVID-19 testing initiative emphasized both quality and quantity.
Delay in COVID-19 vaccines for kids upset parents. Experts say it was the right thing to do.
Many parents were disappointed when the Food and Drug Administration decided this month to postpone consideration of COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5.
Politico: Nowhere is safe: Record number of patients contracted Covid in the hospital in January
Shama Cash-Goldwasser, senior technical adviser at Resolve to Save Lives, a group run by former CDC director Tom Frieden that aims to prevent epidemics, said it’s impossible for hospitals to bring transmission to zero, particularly when facilities are crowded and staff are overwhelmed as they have been during Covid-19 surges. “It’s unfortunate,” she said. “I’m not saying it’s OK … Immunocompromised patients and very sick people are at very high risk of poor outcomes, so transmission inside a hospital can really be devastating.”
COVID-19 / In-Depth Science Review: February 14, 2022 Annex
COVID-19 severity and vaccine effectiveness in the era of the Omicron variant. This annex is an accompaniment to the InDepth Science Review released on February 14, 2022. It provides further details on the studies that informed the review. This science review is a snapshot of the new and emerging scientific evidence related to COVID-19 during […]
COVID-19 / In-Depth Science Review: February 14, 2022
COVID-19 severity and vaccine effectiveness in the era of the Omicron variant. This science review is a snapshot of the new and emerging scientific evidence related to COVID-19 during the period specified. It is a review of important topics and articles, not a guide for policy or program implementation. The findings captured are subject to change […]
CNN: The US still isn’t getting Covid-19 data right
“Lack of accurate, real-time information was one of the greatest failures of the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in March 2021.
New York Times: Biden’s Pandemic Fight: Inside the Setbacks of the First Year
Experts like Dr. Tom Frieden, the C.D.C. director under Mr. Obama, have predicted three possible scenarios ahead: that the nation reaches a kind of truce with the virus, with clusters of outbreaks; that the virus weakens to a threat more akin to a common cold; or that, in the worst case, a variant emerges that combines the contagiousness of Omicron with the virulence of Delta.
Dr. Frieden said the White House must plan for them all. Some former Biden advisers have called for the president to plan for the “new normal” — and accept that Covid-19 is here to stay.
Don’t underestimate Omicron – especially if you’re unvaccinated
Omicron is causing a tsunami, not a wave, of infections in the United States. We’ve learned a lot about this coronavirus variant since it was identified less than two months ago. We know that Omicron is highly transmissible and now accounts for nearly all new Covid cases, having pushed Delta into the background. Omicron causes far less severe disease than Delta, especially among people who are fully vaccinated and boosted. And it appears that the current spike in Covid-19 cases driven by Omicron may subside nearly as quickly as it rose.
The New York Times: The C.D.C.’s New Challenge? Grappling With Imperfect Science
The recommendations for isolation are “basically correct,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who led the agency under President Barack Obama. “The problem is, they were not explained.”
CDC Director Aims to Improve Covid-19 Messaging, Data Collection
“We have decades of underinvestment in information systems,” said Tom Frieden, the CDC’s director from 2009 to 2017. Dr. Frieden is now president of Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit initiative that works on strengthening epidemic preparedness.
Op-Ed: Ex-CDC Chief Dr. Tom Frieden: 5 things we must do now to combat a major COVID death surge
Last March, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged through New York City but hadn’t yet spread across the country, I wrote an essay headlined: “Could Coronavirus Kill a Million Americans?”
Boston Globe: After a rough first year, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tries to correct course
“In my view, they’re sensible guidelines in a very difficult situation, but they weren’t presented that way,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former CDC director in the Obama administration. “I felt like CDC kind of snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.”
New York Times: How to Think About Covid Data Right Now
“The circumstances have changed and we must adapt,” said Dr. Shama Cash-Goldwasser, a senior technical adviser at Resolve to Save Lives, a global health organization. “We have a less severe variant, plus many are vaccinated, but evidence suggests the vaccines are not as good at preventing infection with Omicron as they were against Delta.”
COVID-19 / In-Depth Science Review: December 22, 2021
What do we know about the Novavax vaccine? This science review is a snapshot of the new and emerging scientific evidence related to COVID-19 during the period specified. It is a review of important topics and articles, not a guide for policy or program implementation. The findings captured are subject to change as new information […]
COVID-19 / In-Depth Science Review: November 1, 2021
The glut of COVID-19 vaccines is a myth: How we can — and must — remove barriers to vaccinating the world against COVID-19 This science review is a snapshot of the new and emerging scientific evidence related to COVID-19 during the period specified. It is a review of important topics and articles, not a guide […]
Doorstep medicine delivery for high-risk patients in India during COVID-19 lockdowns
Community health care workers went door-to-door delivering vital medicines.