COVID Interventions

This is a listing (with links where possible) of interventions for COVID.

Healthy

Healthy individuals not yet exposed.

• can we prevent infection

  • vaccination
    • WHO Vaccine tracker
    • Stat news vaccine tracker
    • BioRender Vaccine Tracker)
    • NY Times Vaccine Tracker

• what can reduce healthy patients from being exposed

  • WHO guidance
  • CDC guidance for higher risk patients

• are there safer times to be exposed?

Exposed

• what can be done to prevent exposed patients from becoming infected?
  • What to do if you have been exposed from Harvard Health

Infected

• what can be done to prevent progression?
  • Therapeutics
• what can be done to reduce infection?
  • Therapeutics

Sick

• what can be done at home to prevent progression?
  • Therapeutics

Very sick

• can very sick patients be treated at home?

  • In overwhelmed systems (such as Italy, there was a request to treat more patients at home), and while there are protocols emerging to manage patients who are not very sick at home, when there is hospital capacity it is not clear that very sick patients can be cared for safely at home without reproducing a hospital level of care.

• goals of care - are patients wishes about what they would like to have happen known and honoured?

  • Pallicovid has video simulations of having conversations about goals of care and code status

ED

• best initial care of patients
  • Ambulatory and ED management
• rapid and safe diagnosis
  • Diagnostics for Covid

Hospital

• best treatments to prevent progression in patients
  • Therapeutics

ICU

• best treatments for critically ill patients
  • Critical care management

Ventilator

• Best ventilator strategies
  • Respiratory management
• Multiple patients per ventilators
• Ventilator manufacture

Recovery

• Are they immune? Possibly - but might wane (we don't know the timing yet)
• Can I test if I am immune? Serological testing
• Donating serum - can your antibodies save others?