An Epidemiologist Gets to the Core of an Orchard Outbreak
CDC Foundation December 14, 2020 4:00 pm
By Toni Perling
There’s a sign in front of the Rutland, VT, town hall that reads, “Practice Social Distancing, Stay One Cow Apart.” And Vermont residents have taken heed, making the state one of the most successful in the nation in dealing with the pandemic. That’s due in no small part to COVID-19 Corps Epidemiologist Team Co-Lead Kimberly Perez and her colleagues at the Vermont Department of Health, who recently made the regional news by containing a COVID-19 outbreak among migrant farm workers at a local orchard.