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It'sME (Jamie): #Disability rates have skyrocketed in the United States in the wake of #COVID , with infection-associated chronic illnesses like #MECFS , #POTS , & #MCAS surging.  US Census figures currently report that 14% of Americans are now disabled.
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Rather than address the growing crisis of an ongoing pandemic, not to mention those already disabled, the US Census is responding by changing the definition of #disability .

And if they do so, the rate of disability as identified by the Census is slated to drop to 8%.
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Dr. Bonnie Swenor, Director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center, says, "These changes have moved forward w/o the input of the disability community & have far-reaching, negative implications for disabled people..."
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"As disabled scholars & scholars of disability data, we are concerned with the limited empirical evidence to support these changes to the Census disability data collection methodology. We are asking the Census to stop efforts aimed at changing disability data collection."
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WHAT YOU CAN DO:

✨Submit a public comment to the Census National Advisory Committee Meeting before November 16th:

https://www.census.gov/abo...
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What you can do❣️

✨Respond to the current Federal Register request for comment before December 19th:

https://www.federalregiste...
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Disability advocates & researchers are also asking the Census to:
✨Make a plan to improve the inclusion of disabled people across the activities of the US Census Bureau
✨Support forming a National Taskforce on Disability Data to improve & expand disability data collection
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Please share widely with your networks! Thank you.
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