COVID-19 Surveillance For Local Decision Making: An Academic, School District, and Public Health Collaboration

This journal article advocates for an increase in scale of COVID-19 surveillance. Data collected and analyzed will help support decision making for community health. Detailed information is provided on certain sample studies based in the United States.

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Disease Tracking and Surveillance

Disease surveillance helps us detect disease cases, understand burden of disease and risk factors, provide the basis for timely and informed decision-making, guide control measures, and monitor impacts. Since the onset of COVID-19, surveillance efforts have worked to provide real-time tracking and forecast data, despite challenges with diagnostic capacity, case reporting, insufficient contact tracing, and fragmented data systems. COVID-19 has highlighted the need to invest in modern data systems, expand and skill up the workforce, and ensure data reporting and interpretation retain high ethical and epidemiological standards.

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Health Care

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Schools, Child Care and Colleges

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