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2020 Health Alert Network Messages
- Health Alert Network Message 21-01: COVID-19 Vaccine Request Form
- Health Alert Network Message 20-54: Monoclonal Antibodies (mAb) Treatments in Louisiana Hospitals
- Health Alert Network Message 20-53: Memo to CHCs, FQHC, & RHCs Regarding Requirements for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation
- Health Alert Network Message 20-52: COVID-19 Vaccination Severe/Allergic Reaction Reporting
- Health Alert Network Message 20-51: Information & FAQs about the Pfizer COVID19 Vaccine for Hospitals/ Providers
- Health Alert Network Message 20-50: Message Regarding Requirements for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation for Home Health, Urgent Care Centers, & End Stage Renal Disease Facilities
- Health Alert Network Message 20-49: Message on Quarantine Options After Exposure to COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-48: Message for Hospitals Regarding Requirements for Initial COVID-19 Vaccine Allotment
- Health Alert Network Message 20-47: Message on Nursing Home Visitation Related to COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-46: Update COVID-19 Viral Testing Guidance
- Health Alert Network Message 20-45: Update: Reporting of COVID-19/SARSCoV-2 Results
- Health Alert Network Message 20-44: Clinical Guidance for Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning
- Health Alert Network Message 20-43: Update: Long Term Care Facility Reporting of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Test Results
- Health Alert Network Message 20-42: Update: FDA Broadens Emergency Use Authorization for Veklury (remdesivir) to Include All Hospitalized Patients for Treatment of COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-41: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-39: SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Testing Prioritization When Testing Capacity is Limited
- Health Alert Network Message 20-38: Update: COVID-19 Data Collection and Reporting
- Health Alert Network Message 20-37: Update: Testing for COVID-19 in Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care Facilities, and Other Congregate Settings
- Health Alert Network Message 20-36: Contact Tracing for COVID-19 in Louisiana
- Health Alert Network Message 20-35: Update: COVID-19 Testing at the State Laboratory
- Health Alert Network Message 20-34: Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) Associated with COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-33: Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome Potentially Associated with COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-32: Update –Testing for Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care Facilities, and Other Congregate Settings
- Health Alert Network Message 20-32: Update – COVID-19 Lab Reporting and COVID-19 Reportable Conditions
- Health Alert Network Message 20-31: Update: Testing at State Lab
- Health Alert Network Message 20-30: Changes to Strategies and Precautions for the Disposition of Patients with COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings (Interim Guidance)
- Health Alert Network Message 20-29: Healthcare Facility Notice/ Order Hospital to Nursing Facilities Discharges
- Health Alert Network Message 20-28: Important Information for Louisiana Hospitals
- Health Alert Network Message 20-27: Allowable Medical, Surgical, and Dental Procedures: Updated 4/24/20
- Health Alert Network Message 20-26: Updated Guidance on Certifying Deaths Due to COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-25: Healthcare Facility Notice/ Order #2020 - COVID19-ALL-010
- Clarification Memo - 4/24/2020
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- Health Alert Network Message 20-24: Updated Priorities for Testing Patients with Suspected COVID-19 Infection and Guidance for Testing at the State Lab
- Health Alert Network Message 20-23:Electronic Lab Forms & Updated COVID-19 Testing Guidance for OPH State Lab
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- Health Alert Network Message 20-22: Letter to the Healthcare Community from Governor John Bel Edwards
- Health Alert Network Message 20-21:Letter to Business and Industry from the State Health Officer
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- Health Alert Network Message 20-20: Updated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Guidance
- Health Alert Network Message 20-19: Updated Guidance for COVID-19 Testing at the State Lab & Patient Under Investigation Form
- Health Alert Network Message 20-18:Updated Testing Criteria at State and Commercial Labs
- Health Alert Network Message 20-17:PPE Shortage Letter to Business and Industry Leaders
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- Health Alert Network Message 20-16: Reportable Disease
- Health Alert Network Message 20-15:Testing Algorithm
- Attachment 1:Home Care Guidance
- Attachment 2:Home Care Guidance Providers
- Health Alert Network Message 20-14: Update on Evaluation and Testing of Suspected COVID-19 Cases and Home Care Guidance for Patients and Physicians
- Health Alert Network Message 20-13: Declaration of Emergency Rule for the Protection of the Public
- Health Alert Network Message 20-12: Update of the Availability of the State and Commercial COVID-19 Testing
- Health Alert Network Message 20-11: Steps for Community and Faith Based Organizations
- Health Alert Network Message 20-10: Update of COVID-19 Testing Criteria & Movement & Monitoring Guidance
- Health Alert Network Message 20-09: CDC's Interim Guidance for Businesses for COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-08: Person Under Investigation (PUI) Criteria for COVID-19
- Health Alert Network Message 20-07: Novel Coronavirus Information for EMS/Emergency Responders/911
- Health Alert Network Message 20-06: Mumps Outbreak Awareness for Schools of Higher Learning and Healthcare Professionals
- Health Alert Network Message 20-05: Coronavirus Information for K-12 Schools
- Health Alert Network Message 20-04: Coronavirus Information for Colleges and Universities
- Health Alert Network Message 20-03: Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
- Health Alert Network Message 20-02: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Topline Keypoints
- Health Alert Network Message 20-01: Interim Guidance on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Travelers from Wuhan, China