How are Chronic/MCH/Oral Health epis contributing to the COVID-19 response?
Greetings all, as a former chair I know there is a great deal of expertise and talent among the CD/MCH/OH membership. That talent can perhaps go underutilized during recent disease responses such as Zika, EVALI and the current COVID-19 pandemic. I’d like to start a discussion to find out what ways you might be contributing to the COVID-19 response. My hope is that we can both learn from one another the valuable ways we are contributing to the response and, as part of an effort to increase future infectious disease/non-infectious disease epi collaboration, create an archive that can be drawn upon for future response plans.
By way of example, as a chronic disease epi I was approached to comb through medical records to look for important details missing from initial COVID-19 case reports (especially chronic co-morbidities or missing race/ethnicity information). Due to my experience with Tableau I was recently asked to help Behavioral Health folks build a Tableau dashboard to monitor mental health-related ED visits (via syndromic surveillance data) and the extent to which they increased during COVID-19.
What ways have you been involved in COVID-19 response activities? Or, if you haven’t yet been involved, what ideas do you have for how CD/MCH/OH epis could contribute in meaningful ways?