June 16, 2025 Press release: People Need Vaccine Access. Public Health Experts Denounce Health and Human Services for Restricting Access to COVID Vaccines. The Trump Administration has failed to protect public health by imposing barriers to COVID vaccines.
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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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
This is an open letter to the Director of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was written by volunteers with The People’s CDC, a CDC watchdog and public health advocacy and health justice group. We’re asking medical, public health, and scientific professionals (defined broadly as having credentials and/or professional/technical experience in related fields)
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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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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
Public Health Now. Stop Bombing Gaza. Read More »
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
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DO NOT End the State of Emergency! Protect Everyone! The US has suffered more from Covid-19 than other high-income nations. The state of emergency increased access to Medicaid, and assured free access to vaccines, tests, masks, and treatments for all US residents, including more than 30 million uninsured Americans. Even with these additional resources, the
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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
Statement on FDA’s proposal for once a year COVID vaccination Read More »
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