Toward a Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Now and the Future: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022)

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Appendix D Table of Strategic Actions from Group One SHORT TERM MEDIUM/LONG TERM IMMEDIATE (adaptive as new (systemic resilience building (crisis mitigation) knowledge arises) for the future) ACTION 1: ACTION 1: ACTION 1: • Actor: Public health • Actor: Health care • Actor: Research community departments systems and local public funding effort for • Action: Set up immediate health departments, misinformation response active surveillance efforts in partnership with • Action: Establish an for children, congregate community-based organized understanding settings, elder care organizations about the types of facilities. • Action: Mobilize misconceptions that are community-based likely to be artificially workforce (community promoted. Use pattern health workers, recognition for tropes navigators) to and methods of disseminate necessary miscommunication to health information anticipate what could directly to community come next. Extract members. and operationalize key information about history and intervention approaches. 105 PREPUBLICATION COPY—Uncorrected Proofs 

106 TOWARD A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD SHORT TERM MEDIUM/LONG TERM IMMEDIATE (adaptive as new (systemic resilience building (crisis mitigation) knowledge arises) for the future) ACTION 2: ACTION 2: ACTION 2: • Actor: Local • Actor: Local • Actor: Research community governments and government(s), in • Action: Collect, analyze, departments of health, coordination with the and disseminate data to and hospital systems private sector (hotels, build the knowledge base • Action: Community- child care providers, etc.) and identify lessons learned based organizations and school districts locally and globally should be engaged as • Action: Ramp up efforts   o Community-level health soon as possible in to identify alternate data strategy and response housing and child care   o Municipality-level health conversations, including on a large scale to data implementation process. minimize household exposures; need to protect at-risk children from lower-risk infected adults. ACTION 3: ACTION 3: ACTION 3: • Actor: Hospitals and • Actor: Education • Actor: Federal government health care systems, departments and school • Action: Identify regulatory outpatient clinical sites districts flexibilities that could be • Action: Enact surge • Action: Adapt education brought to bear to adapt protocols. Identify plans throughout and health system responses as additional health care monitor participation to needed for a community- staff. Pediatric divisions ensure those who need level sensitivities and needs. will need to surge staff assistance are reached. and identify additional Ensure people have inpatient/outpatient sites access to the equipment (increasing beds). needed to learn. PREPUBLICATION COPY—Uncorrected Proofs 

APPENDIX D 107 SHORT TERM MEDIUM/LONG TERM IMMEDIATE (adaptive as new (systemic resilience building (crisis mitigation) knowledge arises) for the future) ACTION 4: ACTION 4: ACTION 4: • Actor: Public health • Actor: School districts • Actor: Federal government communicators, in and local department of in partnership with private coordination with local education sector governments • Action: Build a plan • Action: Develop capacity • Action: Anticipate to distribute food/ for nonclinical laboratory information and nutritional assistance testing on a population-level communication challenges to children who were scale. based on lessons learned originally receiving food from the past. Test through school. response campaigns and have talking points ready based on likely misinformation, and disseminate via communication toolkits to community-based organizations and leaders. ACTION 5: ACTION 5: ACTION 5: • Actor: Public health • Actor: Public health • Actor: Federal government communicators, in department in • Action: Identify regulatory coordination with local partnership with flexibilities that could be governments healthcare systems brought to bear to adapt • Action: Reach out • Action: Increase testing health system responses as to social media capacity, both in clinical needed for community-level platforms to partner and nonclinical settings. sensitivities and needs. on specific anticipated Mail-in testing should misinformation and use be expanded; capacity the platforms effectively. needs to be established for broad groups without necessitating hospital visits. ACTION 6: ACTION 6: • Actor: Federal • Actor: Local government government • Action: Revisit • Action: Identify jurisdictional statutes and regulatory flexibilities health orders to ensure that could be brought they are up to date for to bear to adapt health new needs under the new system responses as outbreak. needed for a community- level sensitivities and needs. PREPUBLICATION COPY—Uncorrected Proofs 

108 TOWARD A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD SHORT TERM MEDIUM/LONG TERM IMMEDIATE (adaptive as new (systemic resilience building (crisis mitigation) knowledge arises) for the future) ACTION 7: • 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. PREPUBLICATION COPY—Uncorrected Proofs