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When Emory made flu vaccines mandatory, SORT arranged two flu clinics at Rollins for students to get their shots.
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Student team has become valued partner in emergency and outbreak response By Martha Nolan | Illustration by Joey-Guidone
n late January 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called on their Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to address the rising cases of birth defects due to the Zika virus. In response to the call to staff up the center, a member of the resource support section immediately said, “Can’t we SORT this?”
The CDC staffer was referring to the Rollins Student Outbreak and Response Team, a student-run organization that provides trained and committed volunteers to aid county, state, and CDC response efforts. Now in its 20th year, SORT has lent much-needed assistance in outbreaks and emergencies including the H1N1 epidemic, Hurricane Katrina, the Ebola outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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