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Health Alerts

The San Francisco Department of Public Health sends out Health Alerts, Advisories, and Updates regarding communicable disease outbreaks, immunization updates, and emerging infectious diseases to San Francisco clinicians.

Clinicians can sign-up or submit updated contact information to receive Health Alerts. All contact information is kept confidential.

Click for disease reporting numbers, lab forms, and legally reportable diseases.

Urgency Level Categories

Alert: Conveys the highest level of importance; warrants immediate action or attention.

Advisory: Provides important information for specific incident or situation; may not require immediate action.

Update: Provides updated information regarding an incident or situation; unlikely to require immediate action.

Date of Alert Urgency Subject
01-14-21 Advisory

Health Advisory: Re-admitting patients being discharged from a hospital back to health care or residential facilities

12-28-20 Advisory

Advisory: CDPH Health Alert – SARS-CoV-2 Virus Variant Identified in the United Kingdom

12-24-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Becoming a COVID-19 Vaccine Provider: Information for SF Outpatient Providers

12-23-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Approval: Information for Clinicians

12-15-20 Advisory

Health Advisory Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Approval: Information for Clinicians

11-25-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Slowing COVID-19 Community Transmission: Role of Healthcare Providers

11-10-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Priorities for COVID-19 Testing

08-10-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Eye Protection for Health Care Personnel During Moderate-to-Substantial COVID-19 Transmission

06-18-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Required Best Practices for Reopening Ambulatory Care, Including Counseling and Other Healing Arts

06-10-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: COVID-19 Testing for Children in Childcares and Summer Camps

06-02-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Prioritizing Populations with Structural Barriers to Health in COVID-19 Care Response

05-18-20 Advisory

CDC Health Update for Health Care Professionals Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

05-15-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Blanket Isolation and Quarantine Directives for Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19; Healthcare Provider Responsibilities

05-05-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Expanding COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing to Asymptomatic Frontline or Essential Workers

04-30-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Clinicians Must Report Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Cases to Public Health

04-28-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Recommendation to Expand COVID-19 Testing Criteria; and Testing Availability at CityTestSF

04-14-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: COVID-19 Testing Without Prior Approval at the SFDPH Public Health Lab

03-27-20 Advisory

Health Advisory: Prioritizing Testing for COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Infection

03-16-20 Update

CDC Health Update: Health Care Professionals Updated Guidance on Evaluating and Testing Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

03-06-20 Advisory

Updated San Francisco Public Health Laboratory Criteria for Testing Patients Who May Have COVID-19 Infection

02-28-20 Update

CDC Health Update: Updated Clinical and Laboratory Guidance for Managing Patients Who May Have COVID-19 Infection

02-04-20 Update

CDC Health Update: Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Direct Link to the CDC Flowchart to Identify and Assess 2019 Novel Coronavirus

01-23-20 Advisory

Clinical and Laboratory Guidance for Managing Patients Who May Have Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection

01-21-20 Update

CDC Health Update: Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, China

01-08-20 Advisory

CDC Health Advisory: Outbreak of Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology in Wuhan, China

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CMR Forms

Medical providers: download the Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form to report a communicable disease

CMR Form

or download the COVID-19 CMR form to report a COVID-19 case

COVID-19 CMR Form

Medical Provider Health Alerts

January 14, 2021

Health Advisory: Re-admitting patients being discharged from a hospital back to health care or residential facilities

December 30, 2020

Gonorrhea Health Advisory: New Guidelines for Treatment of Gonococcal Infection

December 28, 2020

Advisory: CDPH Health Alert – SARS-CoV-2 Virus Variant Identified in the United Kingdom

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