News Articles

2020

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  EIS Officer Hannah Segaloff gives an interview with WISN-TV Channel 12 in Milwaulkee, Wisconsin in November 2020.

  States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders — ProPublicaexternal icon
  EIS officer Melanie Firestone, quoted in this story, is the lead author of a contributing publication demonstrating the rationale for consistent mitigation measures across states.
  ProPublica
  December 1, 2020

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  EIS Officer Victoria Chu (pictured right) on board a U.S. Air National Guard helicopter. South China Morning Post, March 2020.

  CDC team at UW-Madison for coronavirus antibody testingexternal icon
  WISN-TV Channel 12, Milwaulkee, Wisconsin
  November 11, 2020

• A Former Chicago Health Commissioner Is Tapped For COVID-19 Task Forceexternal icon
  Dr. Julie Morita is a former EIS officer selected to serve on President-elect Biden’s coronavirus task force.
  WBEZ Chicago
  November 9, 2020
• Meet the disease detectives fighting to understand COVID-19external icon
  Popular Science magazine
  October 20, 2020
• CDC Researching New Virus In Fairbanksexternal icon
  KUAC TV9/FM 89.9 News, Alaska
  October 2, 2020
• A Fairbanks woman was recently diagnosed with the second known case of ‘Alaskapox’external icon
  Anchorage Daily News
  October 1, 2020
• Understanding the Coronavirusexternal icon
  Scholastic Kids Press
  June 18, 2020
• What I Learned While I Was a Disease Detective at the C.D.C.external icon
  New York Times
  May 20, 2020
• ​You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How It Worksexternal icon
  ProPublica
  May 19, 2020
• Coronavirus contact tracers’ nemeses: People who don’t answer their phonesexternal icon
  ABC News
  May 15, 2020
• More than 80 percent of hospitalized covid-19 patients in Georgia were African American, study findsexternal icon
  The Washington Post
  April 29, 2020
• Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Notexternal icon
  The New Yorker magazine
  April 26, 2020
• Wanted: a civilian army of contact tracers to end the lockdownexternal icon | PDF pdf icon[4 MB, 10 Pages, 508]
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  Financial Times
  April 22, 2020
• Disease Detectives: Tracking Invisible Killersexternal icon
  Freethink
  April 21, 2020
• CDC’s ‘disease detectives’ are on the coronavirus caseexternal icon
  Yahoo News
  April 1, 2020
• How the disease detectives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic track an outbreakexternal icon
  Fast Company
  March 16, 2020
• Video: CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officer Victoria Chu accompanies the U.S. National Guard in delivering coronavirus test kits to a cruise ship on the California coast,  March 5, 2020.
  South China Morning Post
  March 6, 2020
• The CDC Has Its Own Intelligence Service That Hunts Down Strange Diseasesexternal icon
  Military.com
  March 2020
• The CDC’s ‘Disease Detectives’ Are Our Front-Line Defense Against Coronavirusexternal icon
  Rolling Stones magazine
  February 29, 2020
• CDC MMWR Article Describes U.S. Public Health Response To, Provides Clinical Guidance For Novel Coronavirus Outbreakexternal icon
  Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
  February 7, 2020