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.
The Deletion of Federal Health Data
The Trump administration has ordered deletion of thousands of public health informational pages from federal websites this past week (link:) as a means of implementing US president’s January 20th executive orders “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.”
Healthcare workers and public health officials rely on these vital reference materials for healthcare providers and patients on HIV guidance and testing, health disparities in populations such as LGBT youth and racialized populations, and health guidance for pregnant people. ACA Signups, an independent online project started in 2013 to compile and analyze enrollment data around the Affordable Care Act and to organize it on a transparent public platform has taken on the labor of indexing every single page of the CDC, FDA and CMS websites as they existed pre-the Trump administration data purge. The complete CDC website as it stood pre-January 27th, 2025 (includes ~7,200 pages) can be accessed here (https://acasignups.net/cdc-website), and the complete FDA website (~5,800 pages) is here (https://acasignups.net/fda-website), while the complete CMS website (~75,000 pages) is in progress and can be accessed here (https://acasignups.net/cms-website).
Use these links to access more resources:
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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[Last CDC Update on 06 Jun 2025]
Recent posts
People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
This is the People’s CDC bi-weekly update for June 2, 2025. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC shares the latest news on the COVID situation and other public health crises in the United States.
Response to NY mask ban budget rule
The important business of the New York State budget was delayed in part by Gov. Hochul’s stalwart insistence on burdening New Yorkers’ ability to protect themselves from environmental hazards and airborne pathogens. Since the Governor first requested an anti-mask policy in the state budget in mid-March, the People’s CDC has joined activists across New York State calling out the harms such policies present to public health.
Press Release: The People’s CDC Denounces the Executive Branch for Cutting Safety Standard Committees for Workplaces and Healthcare Settings
May 19, 2025 Press release The Trump Administration has failed to protect the workforce by cutting most of NIOSH and HICPAC at the CDC Washington DC – As the US faces the start of the sixth year of the COVID pandemic, the People’s CDC denounces the Trump administration for failing to protect workers and especially workers and patients in healthcare settings. Healthcare-acquired infections from SARS-CoV-2 and Flu drive unnecessary harm and death, all preventable by universal masking. However, federal agencies and committees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with vital roles in ensuring the highest safety standards in workplaces and healthcare settings such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) was defunded and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) was eliminated. This was carried out under the current Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy, Jr.
People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
This is the People’s CDC bi-weekly update for May 19th, 2025. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC shares the latest news on the COVID situation and ways public health and access to healthcare in the United States is at risk. See the “Take Action” section for what we can do to protect public health.
People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
This is the People’s CDC bi-weekly update for May 5, 2025. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC shares the latest news on the COVID situation and other public health issues in the United States, with things we can all do to protect ours and others’ health.
People’s CDC Webinar: Fight Attacks on Science and Public Health
The last few months have seen massive attacks on the public health sector. New NIH funding guidelines, released on April 21, 2025, require that recipients
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. Our website now has a donate link for anonymous tax-deductible 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 pay for a People’s CDC T-shirt for any volunteer who wants one.
