Through extensive and accessible (online and offline) science communication, watchdog efforts revealing State and Public Health failures, and through well-coordinated campaigns to bring COVID-based health and safety demands within organized labor and community organizations, the People’s CDC will grow both our reach and impact. Building on a foundation of trust and relationships developed through working together, we will build the collective power required to provide the things we need to end the pandemic and to win an expanded social safety net and public health infrastructure for all.
El CDC (Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades) está creando la apariencia de que la pandemia ha terminado. IT IS NOT.
“In late February, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled a new Covid-19 monitoring system based on what they call “Community Levels.” By downplaying the importance of Sars-CoV-2 transmission, the new system instantly turned what was a pandemic map still red from Omicron transmission to green – creating the false impression that the pandemic is over.
Released four days before the State of the Union, the new CDC measures and the narrative they created let President Biden claim victory over the virus via sleight of hand: a switch from standard reporting of community transmissions to measures of risk based largely on contentious hospital-based metrics. The previous guidelines called anything over 50 cases per 100,000 people “substantial or high.” Now, they say 200 cases per 100,000 is “low” as long as hospitalizations are also low.
The resulting shift from a red map to a green one reflected no real reduction in transmission risk. It was a resort to rhetoric: an effort to craft a success story that would explain away hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and the continued threat the virus poses”
The People’s CDC Guardian Op-ed
Vaccine public comment is due this Friday, October 18, all of us (including immunocompromised people and people age 65 and over) need access to COVID vaccines at least twice a year
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for October 14, 2024. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for September 30, 2024. This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for September 16 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for August 31, 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for August 5, 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
El CDC del pueblo es una coalición de profesionales de la salud pública, científicos, trabajadores de la salud, educadores, defensores y personas de todos los ámbitos de la vida que trabajan para reducir los impactos dañinos de COVID-19.
Brindamos orientación y recomendaciones de políticas a los gobiernos y al público sobre COVID-19, difundiendo actualizaciones basadas en evidencia que se basan en la equidad, los principios de salud pública y la literatura científica más reciente.
Working alongside community organizations, we are building collective power and centering equity as we work together to end the pandemic. The People’s CDC is volunteer-run and independent of partisan political and corporate interests and includes anonymous local health department and other government employees. The People’s CDC is completely volunteer run with infrastructure support being provided by the People’s Science Network.
Though the People’s CDC was supported initially through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, that grant has long expired. We no longer pursue or accept grant funding. We are now entirely funded by people who donate to us. Most of these donations make their way to us through our Substack platform (which anyone can access for free!) or through purchases of People’s CDC swag. Our website now has a donate link for anonymous donations.
The content that we put out is entirely created by volunteers who receive no funding for their work. We pay one person for their labor–a digital organizer. They help us update and maintain our website, make sure we all know what meetings are happening and when, post our content on social media, and monitor our email. They also act as the point person between our organization and our fiscal sponsor, People’s Science Network.
We also pay for a People’s CDC T-shirt for any volunteer who wants one.
