NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL COORDINATION CALL

Covid-19: Data and Dissemination Platforms

2:00 PM ET, April 1, 2020

Agenda

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• Welcome & Overview, Chris Vaughan (FEMA)

• Modeling and Data Requirements

• Joshua Markmam, Modeling

• Robert (Rob) Shankman, Data & UCG COP

• CDC Robert (Bob) Neurath

• Data & Products

• Data Access and Sharing, Jeff Baranyi (Esri)

• Communication & Next Call, Rebecca Boyer (FEMA CTR)

First, mitigation works. Ensure that your communities, small or large embrace mitigation efforts.

Second, integrate all emergency management and public health operations.

Third: Collect data so you can, if necessary, craft requests for high demand, low density critical resources. Collect public, private, and government hospital bed capacity data:

• total beds

• acute care beds

• normal occupancy

• predicted surge occupancy

Fourth, Alternate Care Sites. Identify facilities that can support low acuity patients and require a minimal amount of medical staff, already in short supply.

Fifth, maintain situational awareness of ventilators that may be used across your area—to reallocate. This data will help you understand what you have and what you may need

Sixth, identify all sources to surge medical professionals.

Seventh, manage Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) carefully.

While some of these strategies will yield near-term benefits, it must be your highest priority to carefully manage what you have available to you now.

“We must use all data wherever possible to

allocate scarce resources, including consideration of population size, demographics and vulnerability.”

Pete Gaynor FEMA Administrator

FEMA Administrator’s Letter to Emergency Managers

FEMA Advisory

Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has released all applicable licensed datasets to local, state, tribal, and territorial users with COVID-19 operational needs. NGA is providing access to non-federal governmental disaster/emergency response security agencies and personnel who are supporting Homeland Security/Homeland Defense missions per the current Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Data Use Agreement. Please notethis expanded access will expire once the current declaration of a national emergency ends.

This expanded access covers these additional data products:•Licensed Parcel Data•2020 Roads and Routing Dataset•Dun & Bradstreet Business Points Data

For current users: NGA has automatically adjusted access for mission partners with a signed Data Use Agreement in place and no further action is needed. Please visit the Geospatial Information Infrastructure to interact with this data. Contact DHS_GCOE@hq.dhs.gov should you need assistance.

For first-time users: Go to the HIFLD Subcommittee Home Page and choose “Request Licensed Data.” Complete the Disaster Use Agreement using “COVID-19” as the reference number. Once approved by NGA, you will receive access

within 24 hours. Please note, before you can complete a Data User Agreement and access this data, you must have valid Homeland Security Information Network credentials. Should you have questions, please contact HIFLD@hq.dhs.gov.

COVID-19 GIS /DATA SHARING

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2. Non-Public: FEMA ArcGIS Online, includes password protected access. It is an information collaboration space so states, locals and other federal agencies can share information and easily find content to support their decision-making processes.

3. Public Facing Content: Many organizations, including NAPSG, CUSEC (pictured right), NACO, etc. are publishing open data to support their communities.

1. FOUO: HHS is sharing sensitive data through GeoHealth.Access is limited.

Data Needs and Priorities: Joshua Markman

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The Data and Modeling Task Force is working on the following data requirements

1. Operational Modeling (24-48 Hours)

❑ Tests: How many test are administered?

2. Near term predictive modeling (2-6 weeks out)

❑ Demand for supplies❑ Trade off analysis

• What are the economic impacts of sheltering-in-place?• What is the change in the spread of disease compared to economic activity?

3. Strategic predictive modeling-- (Months out)

❑ How will it spread, where, how many cases and how fast.

1. Operational Modeling

Estimated PPE Burn RatesPer COVID-19-like patient, per day

• Based on discussions with Johns Hopkins and other medical staff with first-hand knowledge

• Supply Chain Task Force has received estimates from Regions 1, 3, 5, and 88

Critical Shortfall Protocol

PPE Used per Day - Floor Status PPE Used per Day - ICU PPE Used per ED patient

Gloves (pair) 97.5 342 84

Face Shield or Goggles 33 114 28

Face Mask 8 29 7

N95 Respirator 24 86 21

Gown 49 171 42

PAPR 0 1 0

PPE Used per Day - Floor Status PPE Used per Day - ICU PPE Used per ED patient

Gloves (pair) 81 285 70

Face Shield or Goggles 16 57 14

Face Mask 24 86 21

N95 Respirator 8 29 7

Gown 33 114 28

PAPR 0.0813 0.2850 0.0700

Standard Protocol

2. Near Term Predictive Modeling

Surging ED visits indicating potential hotspots (top 10)

Increase in the number of patients presenting with COVID-19-like symptoms over 26-28MAR, above previous state baseline

3. Strategic Predictive Modeling

Nevada (as of 27 March)

867Total number of ventilators

(dashed horizontal line)

345In-use

No Order Shelter-in-place

NV prohibits gatherings, but does not prohibit leaving homes

*Data reported by state

3. Strategic Predictive Modeling: Example

GeoHEALTH Landing Page

➢ USA cases (soon will have county level data)➢ World cases➢ Results by State (from labs)➢ Case Trends➢ Death Trends➢ State Rates for Top 10

➢ Hospital Bed Utilization (baseline data)➢ Potential Impact to Hospitals (soon with occupied

beds from 6000+ facilities)➢ SNS/PPE Tracking➢ WHO Dashboard

Send requests to GeoHealth@hhs.gov• Please include phrase “Request server access”

Contacts:

Rob Shankman Robert.Shankman@hhs.gov• Department of Health & Human Services

• GIS Branch Chief & GeoHealth Program Manager

• 202.875.2174 (c)

GeoHealth System GeoHealth@hhs.gov• System Admin – Jeff Marion Jeffrey.Marion@hhs.gov

GeoHealth Access

CDC Data & Products: Bob Neurath [ rneurath@cdc.gov or esi0@cdc.gov ]

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COVID-19 Geospatial Support• COVID-19 Case Aggregation (State & County)

▪ State level COVID-19 case aggregation from CDC, State DOH & others▪ County level COVID-19 case aggregation from USAFacts and validated

with DCIPHER data

• Production & Analysis Support (Internal Use)▪ Absolute Difference 3-Day Period Cumulative Incidence Per 100K▪ Relative Percent Increase Cumulative Incidence Rate Per 100K (3-Day)▪ Cumulative Incidence of COVID-19 Cases per 100,000 by County

CDC COVID-19 Incident Page

CDC Geospatial Product Request

Notes from Bob:

We have been supporting with the CDC COVID-19 Response IM Epidemiology Task Force to develop a standard set of daily (7 days/week) hotspot maps for incidence of COVID19 in US counties. These “snapshots of burden” include:

Cumulative Incidence of Covid-19 per 100,000 by US County (Data Source: USAFacts)Absolute Change in Cumulative Incidence of COVID-19 per 100,000 in a 3-day Period (Data Source: USAFacts)Relative Percent Increase in Cumulative Incidence Rate per 100,000 for COVID-19 Infection Over a 3-day Period, among Counties with 10 or More Cases (Data Source: USAFacts; validated with CDC data available in DCIPHER)

We also classified the counties with the variable class according to NCHS Urban-Rural Classification.In addition, we have been categorizing the counties into rural and not rural

Working on a deployment application in Operations Dashboard that we can share. The workflows for the static maps are in place. Will have to work on the feature class to service to Ops Dashboard link, and develop out the Ops Dashboard. Work to get it into GeoHealth (secure, FOUO) or the (secure) platform used in NRCC.

Finally, we are retooling the Admin 0 COVID19 map. The map was getting crowded since just about every county has some cases.

Hub Site Briefing: Jeff Baranyi, Esri

FEMA Administrator’s 7 Critical Steps

Nominate Content via this link https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/0bad5045112b406db6a40f593cb97225

FEMA Hub – Social Media

Non-Public Information Sharing Group

Request Access to the Non-Public Information Sharing Group -https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/1077085d6ae040fbaddf9a5c95462ea0

Communication & Next Call

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Q&A from April 1, 2020

COVID-19 GEOSPATIAL COORDINATION CALL: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Esri/ArcGIS Online ➢ Is the ESRI software free? Reduced cost? for Govt.? Does the ESRI offer for county governments include ArcGIS Online accounts or just

Desktop/Pro software?

o The Esri software is provided for free via our Disaster Response Program for 6 months for those that need it. You can request

access to the software at the link below. https://www.esri.com/en-us/disaster-response/overview

➢ How do we get access to the HHS / FEMA ArcGIS Online?

o This is in final review and will be made available shortly. We will continue to add and update the hub as we get more content.

➢ Does the ESRI offer for county governments include ArcGIS Online accounts or just Desktop/Pro software?

➢ Esri Coronavirus Resources page - https://www.esri.com/en-us/covid-19/overview

➢ People on DoD networks can't access the abbreviated urls. Please provide full URL.

o Answer: For public items - https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/0bad5045112b406db6a40f593cb97225

o If you have content that is not public but you want to share with FEMA and other fed/state/local agencies -

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/1077085d6ae040fbaddf9a5c95462ea0

o Census Disability Data: https://www.census.gov/topics/health/disability/data/tables.2019.html

➢ Where is the access the raw data (csv) of the state counts by date?

o Find the raw data by county (can be aggregated to State) here: https://static.usafacts.org/public/data/covid-

19/covid_confirmed_usafacts.csv

o Follow up: Is this data available in a feature service, or only in the csv form?

▪ The data is only in CSV format, but it feeds into other services.

➢ Where can I find the Public FEMA hub site you mentioned?

o This is in final review and will be made available shortly. We will continue to add and update the hub as we get more content.

➢ How can I get my information added to the Information Sharing environment?

o To submit content for consideration use this Survey123 form-

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/0bad5045112b406db6a40f593cb97225.

➢ How can I gain access to the non-public information sharing ArcGIS Online Group?

o To gain access to this group, please fill out this Surve123 form

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/1077085d6ae040fbaddf9a5c95462ea0 with your official email address and we will add you to the

group.

Q&A from April 1, 2020

COVID-19 GEOSPATIAL COORDINATION CALL: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

HHS ➢ Send requests for GeoHEALTH access to GeoHealth@hhs.gov

➢ Is the HHS FOUO data there as well?

o HHS FOUO data is only within the GeoHealth Platform.

➢ I don't see the COVID tile on the home page of the Geohealth platform?

o COVID is only available once you log in.

➢ We are worried to use the "bed utilization" rate, because we aren't sure about its accuracy.

o We are consuming numbers directly from Mass DPH daily, but they do not want the numbers "public."

➢ Are you using the HAvBED data as well?

o HAVBED program has been closed for 4 years. There is no replacement.

o For clarification: CDC is not publishing products EXTERNALLY using the USAFacts data. The products that are being produced using

the USAFacts data are becoming available for all govt.

FEMA ➢ there is an ArcGIS Online group in the FEMA for non-public information. This is for federal, state, local information sharing You can request

access via this Survey123 form - https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/1077085d6ae040fbaddf9a5c95462ea0. There are many regional and state

groups too.

Resources and Answers from attendees:

o How can we determine which data services can be shared out through GeoCollaborate for real-time briefings to those who do not know

anything about GIS?

o HIFLD is available through CAC-enabled web-services at https://home.gvs.nga.mil/home/content/vector_overlays/hsip

o Link to the CUSEC Regional Information Sharing Platform: risp-cusec.opendata.arcgis.com/

o COVID-19 chat room: https://iimweb.intelink.gov/webclient?room=global_health with about 700 people in there following and sharing

o Team Rubicon is very new to the GIS world (about 2 weeks now). Here is our public facing dashboard showing our current operations used

by our leadership for SA. Feel free to provide feedback on how we can improve it to ed.amrhein@teamrubiconusa.org

o https://teamrubiconusa.org/covid19-dashboard/

o Resource of interest - Unacast Social Distancing data set:

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b9dcb224eec04cc6aedef1144a98ce0a#overview

o for Situational Awareness USGS Hazards Data Distribution System is being populated with Hi Res Imagery in support.

o https://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/