North Carolina Communicable Disease Manual
NC COVID – 19 Surveillance System (NC EDSS)
NC EDSS Help Desk - (919) 715-5548 or (877) 625-9259
NC COVID/NCEDSS Training Calendar
Goto Webinar Instructions (PDF) (as of February 2023)
1. NC COVID Training Materials:
NC COVID-19 Login Instructions:
- Steps for logging into NC COVID (PDF) (as of July 2024)
2. How to report COVID-19 cases to the State:
- Reporting COVID Events with NO Interview to the State (PDF) (as of January 2023)
- Reporting COVID Events with Interview to the State (PDF) (as of January 2023)
- Reporting COVID Deaths to the State (PDF) (as of January 2023)
3. Helpful Documents:
- Entering Labs in NC COVID
- Entering Antigen (Ag) lab results in NC COVID (PDF)
- Entering PCR lab results in NC COVID (PDF)
- LHD Follow up of Discordant Antigen (Ag) Labs (PDF)
- NC COVID Reports User Guide (PDF) (as of November 2022)
- Searching in NC COVID (PDF) (as of July 2024)
- Adding an Attachment to an Event (PDF) (as of July 2024)
- How to Use Census Tract Data in NC COVID (PDF) (as of June 2022)
4. Focused Topics presented on Webinars:
- Reporting COVID-19 Events (PDF) (as of November 2022)
- Tasks Assignment and Management (PDF) (as of June 2022)
- NC COVID Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) (PDF) (as of May 2022)
- Administrative Package Refresher (PDF) (as of January 2022)
- COVID-19 and Travel Documenting Patient Travel and Travel-Related Questions and Concerns (PDF)
- How to Review WorkFlows (PDF)(as of January 2022)
- Interstate Notifications (PDF)(as of February 2022)
- Linking to an Event (PDF)(as of August 2021)
- Linking to an Outbreak (PDF)(as of April 2022)
- Top NC COVID Data Entry Mistakes (PDF) (as of January 2023)
- NC COVID Vaccine Question Package (PDF) (as of June 2021)
- New Person New Event or New Lab (PDF) (as of March 2022)
- Person vs Event Deduplication (PDF) (as of December 2022)
- NC COVID Reports: Overview and Active Surveillance Reports (PDF) (as of November 2022)
- Browser Settings Event Attachments and Sharing Events (PDF) (as of March 2022)
- COVID-19 Death Reporting (PDF) (as of August 2022)
- Entering COVID Lab Results (PDF) (as of October 2022)
5. Job Aids & Tech Tips:
- Person vs. Event Deduplication Job Aid (PDF) (as of April 2022)
- Key Fields for Case Patients' Travel History (PDF)
- Key Fields for Case Reporting (PDF)
- Lab Job Aid (PDF)
- Reporting Deaths (PDF)
- NC COVID At Home Test Entry Job Aid (PDF)(as of October 2021)
- NC EDSS-NC COVID Sharing Job Aid (PDF) (as of February 2023)
- Tech Tip – Remove an Event from 2 Workflows At Once (PDF) (as of February 2022)
- Tech Tip – Work a Case Entirely from a Workflow (PDF) (as of February 2022)
- Investigation Trail Job Aid (PDF) (as of July 2022)
- Deleting Browser History Job Aid (PDF) (as of July 2022)
- Disabling Autofill Job Aid (PDF) (as of July 2022)
- NC COVID LHD To LHD Transfer (PDF) (as of February 2023)