Service / Inter-Pandemic Period: Pandemic Alert Period: Pandemic Period: Post Pandemic Function: Awareness Standby Activate Response Plan Recovery Period Influenza Mitigation/ Preparedness Heightened Preparedness Response Recovery Surveillance ME 0, I, II ME Levels III, IV ME Levels V, IV ME Levels VII ILINet Enroll new ILINet sites, Consider daily reporting Return to weekly validate and monitor reporting, provide existing sites education to maintain new providers EARS Enroll new EARS sites, Provide education to validate and monitor maintain new sites existing sites Sentinel Enroll new sentinel Consider requesting daily Return to weekly hospitals hospitals, validate reporting reporting, provide electronic sources of data education to maintain new sentinel sites All hospitals Encourage reporting, Consider daily contact to validate electronic sources determine burden of data EDRS Review weekly reports Consider daily or ad hoc Return to weekly reports, consider daily reports contact with morgues, funeral homes, hospitals, nursing homes, EMS and home health agencies HETL Perform weekly data Recommend PCR testing Consider limiting or Remove limits on Maine Reference extracts, review for persons with ILI triaging testing, testing, return to Labs pyrosequencing data implementing submission weekly reports forms, and limiting testing to the most commonly circulating strain
Service / Function: Influenza Surveillance Inter-Pandemic Period: Awareness Mitigation/ Preparedness ME 0, I, II Pandemic Alert Period: Standby Heightened Preparedness ME Levels III, IV Pandemic Period: Activate Response Plan Response ME Levels V, IV Post Pandemic Recovery Period Recovery ME Levels VII ILINet Enroll new ILINet sites, validate and monitor existing sites Consider daily reporting Return to weekly reporting, provide education to maintain new providers EARS Enroll new EARS sites, validate and monitor existing sites Provide education to maintain new sites Sentinel hospitals Enroll new sentinel hospitals, validate electronic sources of data Consider requesting daily reporting Return to weekly reporting, provide education to maintain new sentinel sites All hospitals Encourage reporting, validate electronic sources of data Consider daily contact to determine burden EDRS Review weekly reports Consider daily or ad hoc reports, consider daily contact with morgues, funeral homes, hospitals, nursing homes, EMS and home health agencies Return to weekly reports HETL Maine Reference Labs Perform weekly data extracts, review pyrosequencing data Recommend PCR testing for persons with ILI Consider limiting or triaging testing, implementing submission forms, and limiting testing to the most commonly circulating strain Remove limits on testing, return to weekly reports
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