IFHOH information:

• IFHOH President Dr. Ruth Warick - CoronaVirus and hard of hearing People

• Statement on Accessible Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People during COVID-19 Pandemic

• Links to websites that offer Transparent masks:
  https://visionmask.es/
  https://www.flawa-masken.ch/en/ffp2-maxsmile-pro-105109-en/
  These masks were not checked by IFHOH

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WHO information:

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic

• Rolling updates on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

• Link to receive messages from the WHO Health Alert on WhatsApp

• Disability considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak

• The use of protective masks - WHO

• Infection control for Covid-19 - WHO

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Other sources:

• IDA - COVID 19 and the disability movement.

• EDF - Activities of our members (in Europe)

• CDC main page on the Coronavirus (COVID 19)

• CDC Key Facts on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

• AEA Guidelines for Professional Hearing for COVID-19

• AEA Hygiene Protocol

• European Commission Response Covid-19

• IFHOHYP - Hard of hearing student manual in time of apocalypse

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Info about popular video conferencing software:

• PC magazine compare the best video conferencing software.

• Link to Zoom Website.

  • Link to Zoom video tutorials.

  • Everyone can open an account in Zoom.

  • To join meeting you don't need an account.  To start meetings, you need one.

  • There are free accounts and paid for accounts.

  • With 3 or more participants, free accounts are limited to 40 minutes meetings.  You can start a new meeting after 40 minutes.

  • No built in real time automatic captions.  But you can connect the audio output of the Zoom to an app like "Live Transcribe" for personal real time automatic captions, or even put the smartphone with the captions against one of the meeting participants camera to have all the participants see the automatic captions.

  • Remote human real time captions are possible.

  • It is possible to record the audio of the Zoom meeting.

  • It is possible to have automatic captions of the recorded Audio after the meeting.

• HLAA Supports Free Captioning for People with Hearing Loss​

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Videos

• The Science Behind the Coronavirus.

• When you cannot lip read because of a mask on the face - try automatic captions.  The video is in Hebrew.  You can change the captions to your language, but the general idea can be understood anyway.

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Articles

• Focusing on the Needs of People With Hearing Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

• Lip reading in masks

• Efficacy of Face Shields Against Cough Aerosol