April 14, 2020 With a goal of supplementing the ongoing work of the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a “Community Protection Initiative” team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has arrived in the state for a temporary mission.
Dr. Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with WDH, said she invited the CDC team to supplement the work her staff is doing to help slow and limit the spread of COVID-19 in Wyoming. “The CDC indicated an interest in directing some of their staff toward protecting areas with relatively low levels of COVID-19 infections,” she said. “The idea is to help maintain lower levels of illness in locations that haven’t yet been