Statement

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

As healthcare workers, patients, parents, and caregivers, we at the People’s CDC urge public health officials and healthcare organizations, including hospitals, clinics, physician and dentist offices, nursing homes, and home health care services to require masking in all healthcare settings, and to provide masks (ideally N95 respirators) for everyone in those settings. The revised CDC

Public Comment by Rob Wallace, PhD, submitted to the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee regarding the future vaccination regimens addressing COVID-19. I’m an evolutionary epidemiologist. I mapped statistical phylogeographies, including molecular evolutionary traces, for HPAI H5N1 under CDC advisor Walter Fitch at UC Irvine 1-2. I have consulted for the CDC and

In the face of a leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, and the failure of the Senate to protect abortion rights, the People’s CDC insists that abortion is fundamental to personal and public health, and that its availability and accessibility are crucial for upholding reproductive and health justice.  Firstly, we

The People’s CDC calls for the federal government, the CDC, and local leaders to act urgently to follow Philadelphia’s lead in prioritizing public health by implementing data driven mask mandates.  Philadelphia’s decision is consistent with public health’s goal to prevent and reduce  the harm of the escalating COVID surge, not wait until hospital beds, ICU’s