Atlanta-Based Foundation Steps In To Help CDC Fight Coronavirus

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January 30th, 2020

Before their morning class Tuesday at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, students line up to sanitize their hands in an effort to avoid contact with coronavirus. The respiratory illness has sickened more than 6,000 people in China and reached the United States and other countries.

Heng Sinith / Associated Press

The CDC Foundation has launched an emergency response fund to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention address the novel coronavirus, a respiratory illness that has sickened more than 6,000 people in China and reached the United States and other countries.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has contributed $1 million to kick off that fund-raising effort, which started this week.

The CDC Foundation, which supports the work of the Atlanta-based public health agency, has a history of raising funds in emergency situations, including for hurricane recovery and outbreaks such as Ebola. The foundation can deliver money faster than the CDC can gain through a congressional budget appropriation.

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