Dale Rose seen working in CDC's Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta for the COVID-19 response.Dale Rose seen working in CDC's Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta for the COVID-19 response.
An email lit up Dale Rose’s phone as he ran on an elliptical trainer on a Sunday at his neighborhood YMCA. It was from CDC’s COVID-19 emergency response team.“It read something like, ‘Dale, you’re on the response now.
I already cleared it with your boss. Can you be here today?’” Dale says. “Two hours later, I was in the Emergency Operations Center.
I haven’t looked back.”That was February 2, 2020, less than two weeks after CDC confirmed the first few cases of COVID-19 in the United States.