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Fighting for The Public Health We Need in 2025 and Beyond!
Expanding the fight for the public’s health will be increasingly necessary in the months ahead. Indeed public health – which we understand as fostering every person’s wellbeing, safety and creating conditions for all to thrive – is central to any social movement struggle, and particularly urgent under the new changed conditions. It is clear that
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Letter Campaign to Congress: Keep Free COVID Vaccines for Uninsured Adults
The CDC’s Bridge program ends prematurely in August, tell Congress to fund free COVID vaccines for underinsured and uninsured adults
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No Mask Bans
Politicians across the US – from North Carolina, to New York State to Chicago – are pushing for mask bans. We all have a responsibility to fight this attack on our rights, our bodily autonomy, our privacy and our health. If you stopped masking, now is a good time to reengage with this practice
Demand updated vaccine access for all ages this fall! Public comment to the CDC closes soon
Vaccine public comment is due June 17, all of us need access to the latest COVID vaccines Make your voice heard and ask the CDC to: Recommend updated 2024-2025 COVID vaccines for all ages AND Strengthen our vaccine drive by recommending more frequent boosting (at least every six months) and more frequent updates to the vaccines, adjusted for the
Provisional Death Data
The week following the end of the Public Health Emergency, the number of COVID deaths reported by the CDC dropped from 1000 to 300.
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People’s CDC Public Comment on HICPAC
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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People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
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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Learning from the ‘COVID War’
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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