Resource Update: January 4, 2021

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FREE WEBINAR: Keeping Employees Safe While Reducing Liability

The National Safety Council is sponsoring a FREE webinar to discuss updated steps to help keep your workforce safe, help reduce your company's risk of a claim, and provide developments on applicable employment provisions and guidance in relation to the continuing pandemic, as you prepare for the potential return of your employees to the workplace.

The webinar will be held on Wednesday, January 13, beginning at Noon, CST (1 p.m, Eastern).

If you are unavailable for the live event, registering will give you access to the archived webinar the day after the broadcast date.

To register, click here: Keeping Employees Safe

COVID-19 Relief Bill: PA Businesses and the Latest Round of PPP

The PA Chamber of Business and Industry will host a webinar on the COVID-19 Relief Bill: What PA Businesses Need to Know About the Latest Round of PPP, as part of its Bringing PA Back initiative.

FREE - Thursday, January 7, 2021, 11 a.m. – Noon. 

The recently approved COVID-19 relief and stimulus package includes $284 billion in forgivable, federally backed loans for hard-hit small businesses, non-profits, and live venues across the nation – including those in Pennsylvania. 

Register for the webinar here: COVID-19 and PPP

What the new CARES package could mean to nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly has published an article detailing the potential impacts the new CARES package could have for nonprofit organizations, including topics such as unemployment self-insurance, universal charitable deductions, Paycheck Protection Plan (round 1 and 2), and support for childcare.

Read more here: NonProfit Quarterly CARES

New COVID-19 Variants

New variants of COVID-19 are rapidly emerging. The CDC is working to learn more about how easily they might spread, whether they could cause more severe illness, and whether currently authorized vaccines will protect people against them. 

At this time, there is no evidence that these variants cause more severe illness or increased risk of death.

For additional information, click here: COVID-19 Variants

PA COVID-19 Vaccination Plan

Vaccines are safe and effective and the best way to protect  you and those around you from serious illnesses. The COVID-19 vaccine will be distributed to Pennsylvanians in a phased approach outlined in this plan.

To access the plan, click here: PA COVID-19 Vaccination Plan

COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions

PA Department of Health COVID-19 Vaccine Toolkit

PA COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard

The PA Department of Health has developed a COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard.

To access the dashboard, click here: COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard

PA Governor Lifts Time Limited Mitigation

The time-limited mitigation orders put in place on Dec. 12 have helped to begin flattening the curve of new cases following the post-Thanksgiving surge in Pennsylvania. As a result, the Governor announced that the time-limited orders as written expire January 4.

The press release can be found here: Time-Limited Mitigation Orders Lifted

Stimulus payments for people, not nursing homes

The Federal Trade Commission is reporting that that some nursing facilities tried to take the stimulus payments intended for their residents and advises that families to follow up with their loved ones in nursing homes and care facilities.

For more information, click Stimulus Payments for People 

Fraud Schemes Related to COVID-19 Vaccines

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are warning the public about several emerging fraud schemes related to COVID-19 vaccines that attempt to obtain personally identifiable information (PII) and money through various schemes.

For more information and tips, click COVID-19 Vaccine Fraud

Ventilation in Buildings to Reduce Virus Particles

The CDC has created a new webpage filled with information about building ventilation and interventions that can help reduce the concentration of virus particles, such as SARS-CoV-2, in the air.

That webpage can be accessed by clicking Building Ventilation 

Doug Hoy
Disaster Response Coordinator
drc@susumc.org 717-766-7441 ext. 3402

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