Dear Colleagues,

The long-awaited update to guidelines for healthcare personnel screening, testing, and treatment are almost complete. However, due to MMWR restrictions, the update can only be 1600 words long.

The workgroup felt quite strongly that concrete examples are needed of how to implement the updated guidelines in the variety of settings where healthcare personnel work. Thus the decision to form another workgroup to create a companion document.

This is a request for those with expertise and interest in this topic to participate. The workgroup is headed by Wendy Thanassi, in occupational health at the VA. The hope is to have a mix of public health, infection control, and occupational health people in this workgroup, as we will all need to work together to implement the guidelines. We hope to make this a short and intense workgroup, with publication hoped for in December 2018.

If you would like to participate, please send:

Your name      your email      your telephone number

to Lorna Will at lwill@tbcontrollers.org.

Wendy will contact you with more information and a copy of the updated guidelines. Please note: as the guidelines have not yet completed CDC clearance and are not published, they MAY NOT be shared by participants in this workgroup with anyone outside the workgroup. Thank you for observing this rule for working on draft guidelines.

Thank you for your interest! We look forward to a companion document full of practical examples and guidance.

Lorna​