People's CDC Asking President And Congress For Continuing COVID HealthCare

The People's CDC, a health advocacy organization is calling for a campaign to ask legislatures to provide adequate funding for COVID pandemic public health infrastructure. The organization cites the following as evidence of continued funding for public health funding:

2700 deaths in the US alone from COVID in one week is an emergency.

More than 23 million suffering from Long COVID is an emergency.

So is 45% of COVID cases – including in children – leading to lingering symptoms. Pediatric hospitals overwhelmed by RSV, Flu and COVID is an emergency.

Rationing healthcare capacity – invoking crisis standards of care – three years into a pandemic, instead of creating a robust public health infrastructure?

The People's CDC asks the public to write to the President and Congress for help with a suggested format shown below.

President Biden and Members of Congress, our Elected Representatives,

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we need you to treat the pandemic like the ongoing public health emergency it is. We need you to embrace a comprehensive approach to public health based on layers of protection and public policies aimed at protecting the most vulnerable people among us. We need you to make the following things happen:

Maintain the State of Emergency
Renew Congressional funding for the pandemic response
Make public health policies including masking based on the CDC’s Community Transmission Map, and retire the misleading Community Levels Map
Support and promote a layered approach to the pandemic including:
Free, fast accessible PCR testing for all
Free access to N-95 grade masks for all
Free access to updated treatments for all
Booster access for all
Funding for accelerated next generation and nasal vaccines
Paid sick leave
Clear and science-based quarantine and isolation policies
Funding for air ventilation and filtration upgrades in all public buildings
Funding for Long COVID treatments, and research led by Long COVID patients

More than COVID 250,000 deaths in 2022 – the third year of the pandemic – is an emergency. We have the tools to prevent more unnecessary severe and chronic illness and death. In 2023, let’s use them.

Write to the President & Congress!

QR Code image with the People’s CDC logo, captioning includes link to action network letter campaign and states, Join the People’s CDC in writing elected representatives in a call to Maintain Healthcare Coverage. We need robust public health infrastructure.

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The People’s CDC is a collective of volunteer public health practitioners, scientists, health care workers, educators, advocates and people from all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.