Table 1.
Local COVID-19 Response Intervention Components, Illustrative Response Activities Implemented, and Sectors Involved in Delivery
Response intervention components | Illustrative response activities implemented | Sectors involved in delivery |
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Surveillance and epidemiology | Contact tracing and epidemiology investigations implemented | Public health, county government |
Risk communication and community engagement | Unified Command launched the “Smart & Safe Community COVID-19 Scorecard,” a guiding document for decision making | Hospital, public health department, education/schools and universities, city government, county government |
Infection prevention and control | Public health order required establishments to stop serving alcohol by 9 p.m. and close by 10 p.m. | City government, county government, public health, business, law enforcement |
Case management and health services | Nurses visited the local homeless shelter two times per week to provide COVID-19 screening and education | Public health, social service |
Laboratory services | The university expanded symptomatic testing capacity with a drive-through clinic in a dorm parking lot | Health providers, hospital, university |
Supply procurement and logistics | Hospitals partnered with health centers on supply procurement for needed swabs | Health providers, hospital |
Coordination | Unified Command activated under the National Incident Management System | Public health, emergency management, hospital, city and county government, schools, universities, law enforcement, health care providers, human service providers, businesses |
Maintenance of essential services and operations | County Commission provided additional funding to local food banks to support increase in food insecurity | Local government, social service |
Note. COVID-19 = coronavirus disease 2019.