ACTION 2:

• Actor: Local governments and departments of health, and hospital systems
• Action: Community-based organizations should be engaged as soon as possible in strategy and response conversations, including implementation process.

ACTION 2:

• Actor: Local government(s), in coordination with the private sector (hotels, child care providers, etc.) and school districts
• Action: Ramp up efforts to identify alternate housing and child care on a large scale to minimize household exposures; need to protect at-risk children from lower-risk infected adults.

ACTION 2:

• Actor: Research community
• Action: Collect, analyze, and disseminate data to build the knowledge base and identify lessons learned locally and globally o Community-level health data o Municipality-level health data

ACTION 3:

• Actor: Hospitals and health care systems, outpatient clinical sites
• Action: Enact surge protocols. Identify additional health care staff. Pediatric divisions will need to surge staff and identify additional inpatient/outpatient sites (increasing beds).

ACTION 3:

• Actor: Education departments and school districts
• Action: Adapt education plans throughout and monitor participation to ensure those who need assistance are reached. Ensure people have access to the equipment needed to learn.

ACTION 3:

• Actor: Federal government
• Action: Identify regulatory flexibilities that could be brought to bear to adapt health system responses as needed for a community-level sensitivities and needs.

ACTION 4:

• Actor: Public health communicators, in coordination with local governments
• Action: Anticipate information and communication challenges based on lessons learned from the past. Test response campaigns and have talking points ready based on likely misinformation, and disseminate via communication toolkits to community-based organizations and leaders.

ACTION 4:

• Actor: School districts and local department of education
• Action: Build a plan to distribute food/nutritional assistance to children who were originally receiving food through school.

ACTION 4:

• Actor: Federal government in partnership with private sector
• Action: Develop capacity for nonclinical laboratory testing on a population-level scale.

ACTION 5:

• Actor: Public health communicators, in coordination with local governments
• Action: Reach out to social media platforms to partner on specific anticipated misinformation and use the platforms effectively.

ACTION 5:

• Actor: Public health department in partnership with health care systems
• Action: Increase testing capacity, both in clinical and nonclinical settings. Mail-in testing should be expanded; capacity needs to be established for broad groups without necessitating hospital visits.

ACTION 5:

• Actor: Federal government
• Action: Identify regulatory flexibilities that could be brought to bear to adapt health system responses as needed for community-level sensitivities and needs.

ACTION 6:

• Actor: Federal government
• Action: Identify regulatory flexibilities that could be brought to bear to adapt health system responses as needed for a community-level sensitivities and needs.

ACTION 6:

• Actor: Local government
• Action: Revisit jurisdictional statutes and health orders to ensure they are up to date for new needs under the new outbreak.