READY COVID-19 Factsheet
This fact sheet was developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health for the OFDA-funded READY Initiative as part of the READY Initiative RCCE Toolkit.
It includes information about:
- Risk factors
- Prevention
- Immunization
- Transmission
- Signs and Symptoms
- Diagnostics
- Treatment
- Definition of a pandemic
- Past airborne and respiratory outbreaks5,6,7 and pandemics since 1918
- Epidemiology
- Impact

- Gendered Implications of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings
- Pretesting Messages and Materials
- Messaging Guidelines- Risk Communication/Community Engagement (RCCE) Considerations for Covid-19
- Example of a Rumor Categorization Tool
- Example of a Rumor Log Tool
- COVID-19 and Gender Equality
- Checklist: Message Development
- Guidance Notes for IFRC and Response Teams
- Note d'Orientation pour les equipes d'intrvention des societes nationales et de la federation
- Coronavirus — COVID-19 Factsheet
June 30, 2020