Nowhere in Vietnam has the impact of COVID-19 on TB been felt more than in Ho Chi Minh City—which is not only the epicenter of TB infections in Vietnam, but also the location of over half of the country’s total COVID-19 cases and more than 75% of the deaths thus far.

Travel epidemiologist Karuna Mary Bollam plays an unusual role in the COVID-19 Corps: she works closely with CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine to make sure those who are under isolation for coronavirus don’t leave the state of Oregon by air or sea.

What if English was your second language, and the COVID information you’re relying on to keep your loved ones safe was hard to find and poorly translated? It's one of the challenges the Latino Community Center, the NHL Foundation and the CDC Foundation teamed up to solve.

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall and was the strongest hurricane to hit the Northern Bahamas in modern records. The storm caused loss of life and devastated many parts of the island including roads, homes and medical clinics.

The Foundation has tackled the opioid crisis, tobacco use, hurricane relief, Ebola, Zika and other health challenges around the globe. But nothing compares to the scope and scale of the needs from the COVID-19 response. Enter a new emergency workforce: the COVID-19 Corps.

A team of public health workers in Connecticut—the Community Outreach Specialists program—is working to address health disparities through a program focusing on outreach to communities of color by staff who live and work in the neighborhoods they serve.

From Alaska to the Great Plains to Puerto Rico, COVID-19 Corps communications specialists are finding creative ways to keep their diverse communities, no matter their native language, up to date on the latest coronavirus news and health department recommendations.

Around the world, coronavirus variants continue to complicate the fight against COVID. To help protect Brazil’s frontline healthcare workers from the P.1 variant, the CDC Foundation is funding a research project to gather data on infection rates among hospital workers.