Vermont has been one of the most successful states in the nation when it comes to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. That's in no small part due to the team at the Vermont Department of Health, and their quick work in stopping outbreaks in their tracks.

This tight-knit team of ten COVID-19 Corps members didn’t know each other before joining the CDC Foundation initiative—but now they’ve become known in Pennsylvania public-health circles as “The Super Tracers.”

When it comes to effective emergency response, there's no substitute for experience. Meet some of the CDC Foundation's senior advisors who were hired to bring their deep public health backgrounds to provide help wherever they were needed.

Former nurses, recent college grads, workforce returnees and longstanding public health pros—they’re all bringing their varied backgrounds and talents to bear as members of the CDC Foundation's COVID-19 Corps.

For Seattle Fire Chief Scoggins, who oversees a department of more than 1,000, the threat from COVID-19 is a daily concern—especially when it comes to keeping his people protected. So in May 2020, SC Johnson and the CDC Foundation teamed up to help.

Seattle was the first major U.S. city to be hard hit by the coronavirus. So the University of Washington's School of Nursing was faced with a dilemma: how could they find a way to get their students the safe in-clinic training they needed to graduate?

The CDC Foundation hired surge public health workers through the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Corps to give Houston, TX, more capacity. These staff in as well as others in some of the country’s most-impacted areas, from Detroit, MI, to Santa Clara, CA, were hired with the help of a $15 million donation provided by TikTok.

Does COVID-19 transmit through breastmilk? Can mothers pass it on during pregnancy? What is its impact on maternal and child health after birth? These questions and more are what the investigators of the Pregnancy Coronavirus Outcomes Registry, or PRIORITY, hope to answer.