Keep moving forward
Preparing and planning will help to reduce a sense of helplessness and panic around the response to the COVID-19 emergency. It will also go a long way toward providing success and efficiency when the situation begins to recover.
CDS is working to bring you additional information and resources in the coming days to guide you through the next few weeks. We urge you to email us at [email protected] with questions you'd like answered and we will do our best to address them.
Please keep in mind that information is changing hourly and daily. CDS will update its website by 9 a.m. so you have the most current information to weather this unprecedented challenge to our profession and nation.
Updated May 26, 2020
COVID-19 Webinars
Times are Central Time Zone
CDS Webinars
- COVID-19: CDC & OSHA Guidance (Presented by Jackie Dorst, RDH, on May 14, 2020. ) Download the handout
- Human Resources Questions and the Business Impact of COVID-19 in Illinois (originally presented April 30, 2020.)
ADA Webinars
Latest News
- ADA cautions dentists to study sanitation products’ claims carefully
- 9 ways pandemic may upend health care industry
- Understanding the dental practice in the pandemic age
- Informal survey captures patients’ perceptions of going to dentist now
- Illinois records 1,700 new virus cases
Chicago Dental Society Updates
CDS in the News
Dentists’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic has generated multiple media articles and broadcasts
CDS Review Stories
- On Hold: COVID-19 crisis leaves career plans in a state of flux
- Scam Alert: Be wary of unsolicited help
- Practice Smarts: In scary times it is best to be proactive to reassure your patients
What CDS Members Are Talking About
- Dr. Sherece Thompson: Ways to Maintain Good Oral Health While Dental Offices are Closed (May 5, 2020)
- Dr. Larry Williams: Essential Steps to Prepare for the Reopening of Dental Offices (May 12, 2020)
Additional CDS Updates & News
- Watch a conversation about COVID-19 with CDS President, Dr. Terri Tiersky and UIC Dean, Dr. Clark Stanford
- Stay Strong and Determined: CDS President Terri Tiersky
- Dr. Terri Tiersky has spearheaded a PPE donation drive to aid first-responders at UIC.
PPE Resources
- ADA has tips on extending use of N95 masks
- Homeland Security opens probes of counterfeit products, meds
- ADA issues tips to avoid counterfeit masks
- Waukegan firm offers to decontaminate N95 masks free
- ADA urges third-party payers to adjust fees for PPE
- ADA gives interim mask, face shield guidelines
- A guide to understanding masks used in dentistry
- FDA-authorized respirators listed
- To report PPE shortages to the FDA, email [email protected]
- NIOSH-approved filtering facial respirators provided
- 3M offers FAQ on respirator protection
- Best practices offered for using facial masks
- CDC offers strategies to preserve PPE
Practice Recovery Resources
- Dentists adapt as many states reopen
- Teledentistry tips to help practices manage patient encounters
- Screening, ventilation, distancing still key to prevent workplace infection
- ADA readies reopening ‘hazard assessment’ guide
- Dentists, hygienists must ‘work together’ on reopening
- NYC dentists recount their steps to reopen
- CDC pledges new dental guidelines for use in re-opening states
- How PPP, ‘Families First’ programs affect re-staffing decisions
- IDPH outlines guidance for elective dental treatment to resume
- IDPH has guidelines on business health, safety
- Dentists must lead team with a plan, not panic: DentistryIQ
- Dentists want virus testing before reopening
- How to lead with Emotional Intelligence during the pandemic
- 10 tips for making sense of the COVID-19 models for decision-making
- CDC updates guidance for dental practices planning to reopen
- Tips to create a recovery plan from Dr. Roger Levin
Business Concerns
- Congress eyes liability protections; Illinois among states with shields
- Coronavirus points to new approach for insurance contracts
- PPP loan forgiveness application now at SBA
Virus’ other toll: 27 million could lose employer health insurance
- Some forecasters predict sharper economic decline
- CMS updates FAQ on state Medicaid, CHIP programs
- U.S. Labor Department FAQ addresses unemployment, job refusal
- IHFS OKs temporary reimbursement for video/audio virtual exams
- SBA lists Paycheck Protection Program lenders
- EPA to use ‘enforcement discretion policy’ for July 14 amalgam separator deadline
- IRS answers questions on Employee Retention Credit
- The ADA has a FAQ on business questions
- COVID-19 Small Business Guidance & Loan Resources
breakdown on all federal programs and aid for small business
- SBA has guide to loans for small business owners
- Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Questions & Answers | U.S. Department of Labor
- COVID-19 and the American Workplace | U.S. Department of Labor
- SBA loans
Office Risks
- Hygienists conflicted on use of ultrasonic instrument: RDH poll
- Invisible virus, invisible fear: How to navigate the unseen
- Shady firms market unreliable COVID-19 tests
- Researchers see need for more testing before states can safely reopen
- A better way to disinfect surfaces?
- COVID-19 and the problem with dental aerosols
- Unreliable COVID-19 test kits being marketed to dentists
- Infection control guidance
- OSHA has developed guidance to help identify risk levels in workplace settings in response to COVID-19
Students/New Dentists Resources
- ADA Accelerator Series: “What Makes Humans Happy?” (1 p.m. May 26, 2020) Register for the Webinar
- New Dentists see changes to profession post-pandemic
- Grant to provide aid to new dentists and their teams
- Indiana dentist recounts journey from closing to reopening
- Researchers seeks dental students’ pandemic stories
- Dental schools celebrate graduates with online ceremonies
- Banker advises furloughed New Dentist on stabilizing finances
- Mundelein New Dentist: ‘We need to create a new normal’
- Illinois expands debt relief measures to private student loans
- Testing agencies moving to non-patient exams for dental licensing
- New Dentist offers advice for protecting your practice
- Associate dentist swallows fear, pride as she adjusts to furlough
- ADA Member Advantage sponsors offer banking, loan support
- Student loan repayment during uncertain times (webinar originally broadcast April 2, 2020)
- Are you graduating from dental school this spring? Here’s a look ahead
- Temporary relief for student loan borrowers
- FAQ with guidance on student loans amid the COVID-19 crisis
- ASDA Guidance for Students
ADA Resources
- ADA launches ‘Return to Work Toolkit’ interim guidance
- ADA has guidance for contract negotiations in anticipation of higher costs
- HPI latest poll shows 74% of dentists applied for SBA loan; collections down
- ADA offers interim guidance as states consider reopening economies
- ADA presses feds to let dentists test patients for COVID-19 before treatment
- Fewer dentists paying staff during shutdown ADA poll finds
- Video-conferencing, teledentistry risks spelled out in ADA fact sheet
- ADA fact sheet on Paycheck Protection Program
- ADA flowchart for evaluating, treating emergency patients
- ADA urges dentists to heed April 30 postponement recommendation
- ADA has released updated employment law guidance
- A breakdown on recommendations and mandates on dental practices state-by-state
- COVID-19 Resources for dentists
- ADA has released COVID-19 coding and billing guidance
- Small Business Owners Guide to the CARES Act from the ADA
- A summary of how the newly-enacted CARES Act will affect dentists
Health/Well-being Resources
- Remdesivir helps shorten recovery for COVID-19 patients: NIH
- ‘Uncertainties’ ahead for widespread vaccine in 2020
Researchers warn some tests give false assurance of negative results
- ‘When can we expect a COVID-19 vaccine?’
- Researchers revise pandemic death toll upward
- NIH to study virus infection in children
- COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting effects, AP reports
- Strategy needed to speed vaccine candidates: NIH
- Five variables affect virus symptoms, outcomes
- Johns Hopkins studies mental toll of pandemic
- Researchers study whether COVID-19 antibodies can prevent reinfection
- Experts foresee second wave of pandemic
- Antiviral drug shows promise in COVID-19 battle: NIH
- Success of eventual vaccine will hinge on delivery
- Chinese researchers find many recovered virus patients still test positive
- Panel developing NIH virus treatment guidelines
- Two types of tests look for new, old virus infection
- Abbot aims for June rollout of diagnostic test for general population
- NIH looks to speed virus vaccine, treatment options
- WHO studies virus ‘reactivation’ in South Korea
- What if a staffer/patient tests positive?
- Dentists can volunteer to aid in medical emergencies with Illinois Helps
- Scientists watching if seasonal changes affect virus transmission
- How many adults are at risk of serious illness if infected with coronavirus?
- Overcoming fear and the battle in our brain
- ADA Blog on keeping calm in the coronavirus crisis
Illinois Updates
- Gov. Pritzker unveils phased, regional reopening plans
- Gov. Pritzker extends stay-at-home order, loosens some regulations
- Delta Dental Foundation donates to ISDS Foundation to provide care during pandemic
- ISDS appeals to IDPH for guidance on dental services
- Gov. Pritzker extends stay-at-home order through May
- ISDS recommends dentists cease all but emergency treatment until the end of April
- Dentists can volunteer to aid in medical emergencies with Illinois Helps
- FAQ on human resources, insurance and financial relief
Illinois continues to seek PPE supplies for first-responders
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- CDC estimates 35% of virus patients show no symptoms
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CDC reports on ‘superspreader,’ stresses need for distancing, self-reporting
- CDC reports new symptoms of COVID-19
- CDC chief says 25% of infected people may be asymptomatic
- Air, floor samples in CDC study show rampant virus contamination
- Interim Infection Prevention and Control Guidance for Dental Settings
- Interim planning guidance for businesses
- Healthcare providers with potential exposure to COVID-19
- Strategies for optimizing PPE supplies
Additional Information & Resources
- World Health Organization – International updates
- CDC – National updates
- State of Illinois – State updates
- City of Chicago – City updates
- Chicago Public Schools updates
- Chicago Park District updates
- Illinois Department of Public Health – State updates from Dept. of Health
- Ask Dr. Arwady – Ask Chicago Commissioner of Public Health questions at 11 a.m. any day on Twitter.
- Governor’s Daily Press Conferences – The Governor live streams daily press conferences usually at 2:30 p.m.
- American Dental Association
- Illinois State Dental Society
- ISDS petitions governor for reopening guidelines, access to PPE