People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
October 14, 2024
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for October 14, 2024. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
A CDC watchdog and public health advocacy and health justice group.
Through extensive and accessible (online and offline) science communication, watchdog efforts revealing State and Public Health failures, and through well-coordinated campaigns to bring COVID-based health and safety demands within organized labor and community organizations, the People’s CDC will grow both our reach and impact. Building on a foundation of trust and relationships developed through working together, we will build the collective power required to provide the things we need to end the pandemic and to win an expanded social safety net and public health infrastructure for all.
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The Pandemic is NOT over
The CDC is creating the appearance that the pandemic is over. IT IS NOT.
“In late February, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled a new Covid-19 monitoring system based on what they call “Community Levels.” By downplaying the importance of Sars-CoV-2 transmission, the new system instantly turned what was a pandemic map still red from Omicron transmission to green – creating the false impression that the pandemic is over.
Released four days before the State of the Union, the new CDC measures and the narrative they created let President Biden claim victory over the virus via sleight of hand: a switch from standard reporting of community transmissions to measures of risk based largely on contentious hospital-based metrics. The previous guidelines called anything over 50 cases per 100,000 people “substantial or high.” Now, they say 200 cases per 100,000 is “low” as long as hospitalizations are also low.
The resulting shift from a red map to a green one reflected no real reduction in transmission risk. It was a resort to rhetoric: an effort to craft a success story that would explain away hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and the continued threat the virus poses”
The People’s CDC Guardian Op-ed
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The People’s CDC is a coalition of public health practitioners, scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.
We provide guidance and policy recommendations to governments and the public on COVID-19, disseminating evidence-based updates that are grounded in equity, public health principles, and the latest scientific literature.
Working alongside community organizations, we are building collective power and centering equity as we work together to end the pandemic. The People’s CDC is volunteer-run and independent of partisan political and corporate interests and includes anonymous local health department and other government employees. The People’s CDC is completely volunteer run with infrastructure support being provided by the People’s Science Network.
Though the People’s CDC was supported initially through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, that grant has long expired. We no longer pursue or accept grant funding. We are now entirely funded by people who donate to us. Most of these donations make their way to us through our Substack platform (which anyone can access for free!) or through purchases of People’s CDC swag. When our website is updated, we will include a donate button for anonymous donations.
The content that we put out is entirely created by volunteers who receive no funding for their work. We pay one person for their labor–a digital organizer. They help us update and maintain our website, make sure we all know what meetings are happening and when, post our content on social media, and monitor our email. They also act as the point person between our organization and our fiscal sponsor, People’s Science Network.
We also paid for a People’s CDC T-shirt for any volunteer who wanted one.
