The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own | The People's CDC

We're epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government's handling of Covid

A new omicron variant, referred to as BA 2, is taking hold in the US. Anthony Fauci and others have said they don't expect a new surge in the US, but BA.2 is causing devastating surges elsewhere, and the policies and behaviors we might use to prevent a surge in the US have been widely abandoned, in part thanks to the CDC's new system for measuring and conveying Covid risk.

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.