This episode is divided into two parts. In the first here, we cover global COVID, US COVID, some new results in Long COVID, and the continuing decline in available surveillance data during a still ongoing pandemic. In the second part, we’ll continue to track the politics of the disintegration of U.S. public health, not only […]
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Public Comment by Andrew Wang, PhD, MPH and Raj Chaklashiya, on behalf of the People’s CDC, submitted to the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) regarding the inadequacy of proposed updated guidelines. COVID-19 infections injure, harm, and cause mortality among Americans. Based on both case counts and estimates, millions of Americans also are
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Over 900 occupational safety, aerosols science, public health, and medical experts have written to new CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, informing her that CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) must correct their review on COVID infection control measures to reflect the science of aerosol transmission through inhalation and their decision-making process
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People’s CDC Statement and Call to Action on Palestine The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly.” Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of
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The Weather: Wastewater levels appear to have dropped slightly in the West, Midwest, and South regions. The national average decreased, from 608 copies/ml to 509. However, wastewater levels remain higher than the past six months and as high as this past Winter of 2023. Until we see a significant drop, the risk for a COVID
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As there’s much to cover in the world of COVID, we’re dividing this week’s episode into two parts. In the first part, we cover the state of global COVID, the state of U.S. COVID, the latest in Long COVID, and what Americans are saying themselves about their latest COVID infections. In the second part here
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In this part, we address why the political class and their corporate contributors are trying to bury the pandemic as a social phenomenon even as they continue to act to protect themselves from the virus. We find on this side of the end of emergency the CDC reducing funding for child vaccinations and rolling back measures for controlling all infectious disease in
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On August 10, The People’s CDC hosted Marc Johnson has he led us through a webinar on the importance of wastewater data and how it can aid the continued monitoring of COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the full webinar or see the full transcript below!
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There is a dangerous new government policy being proposed which could harm healthcare workers and patients across the country. Instead of strengthening infection control policies in healthcare settings to protect workers and patients from infectious diseases such as COVID-19, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and future pandemic pathogens, the CDC is planning future guidance which
By: Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. Produced by an eminently established collection of people, The COVID
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