While the CDC has given up on providing any guidance on risk control measures for covid, The People's CDC is filling the gap and continuing to track and update guidance as the situation evolves. Here's where you can download their Safer In-person Gatherings Toolkit:
Guidelines for keeping each other safer while gathering in-person during the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. As the holidays quickly approach, co
Here's an extremely detailed guide on what to do if you have covid that includes how long to isolate for, how to set up your house with hepa filters and ventilation, what supplies to have on hand, when to go to the hospital, and guidelines on how to pace from the MEAction Network in the event you end up with long covid:
A guide for preparing for illness, preventing spread to others, managing symptoms, and recovery.
The work these guys are doing is amazing. They're still tracking wastewater data too so you can still figure out transmission levels in your area and not just the hospitalization levels. Check them out!
Another project connected to the People's CDC is Breathesafe. It looks like it's just getting started but it's goal is to document air quality in different buildings using CO2 monitors and then calculating covid risks related to that. This tool would allow people to check how effective the ventilation systems are in the places they need to go. Event planners could use it to help choose safer locations for their events. Local activists could use it to pressure specific businesses and public buildings to update their systems.
It'll be a really useful map as more data comes in, so please consider contributing data to this project.
If you are looking for an opportunity to do some direct action, consider getting a CO2 monitor to map the air quality of all your local venues, shops, and public spaces. Add that data to the People's CDC Breathesafe map project to keep people safer. You could even lend the monitor out to other people to map even more places.
