Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Two fourth-year students of the Wright State Boonshoft School Medicine are helping to track the spread of the novel coronavirus with the Centers for Disease Control, according to a press release from Wright State University.
Rinki Goswami, of Beavercreek, and Vishal Dasari, of Chennai, India, were both deployed to a CDC Emergency Operations Center, where their efforts help with surveillance, testing, management and prevention of the disease.
EOCs are commonly used to help the CDC track the spread of troublesome disease, which in the past has included diseases like the Ebola virus and polio.
“The CDC is working with the international community to contain the coronavirus, as well as state and local officials to monitor people entering the U.S. in 20 different U.S. airports,” Goswami said. “The goal is to minimize the impact of the virus by getting those who may be infected tested quickly.”
Goswami and Dasari are aiding the CDC as part of the Epidemiology Elective Program, which offers students eight-week rotations working at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta to gain hands-on experience with public health.
Both are halfway through their rotation, Goswami in the Division of Blood Disorders and Dasari with the One Health Office in the Office of the Director at the National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
