Author name: People's CDC

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.

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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.

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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 of federal funds must certify that they do not operate any programs which advance or promote diversity, equity, inclusion or accessibility, and that they do not engage in boycotts of

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Press Release: Experts Condemn Trump Administration Attacks on Science and Public Health, Call on Hospitals to Keep Patients Safe for All

April 23, 2025: Press release

Experts Condemn Trump Administration Attacks on Science and Public Health, Call on Hospitals to Keep Patients Safe for All

Release journal article demonstrating simple infection control measures dramatically reduce hospital-acquired illness and death

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