"We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19": CDC poster, 2020 US poster: A CDC public-health poster redraws

"We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19": CDC poster

"We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19" (CDC, December 2020)

CDC poster from December 2020, "We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19," with four printed steps. The 1943 shop poster keeps the short title.

Techniques named on the archive record

Transfer
Date
December 21, 2020
Made by
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Medium
Poster
Country
United States
Regime
Trump Administration
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
CDC Stacks (Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , retrieved October 2, 2026
Source
Public domain (U.S. government work; CDC Stacks rights field: 'Public Domain') Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.

Full record at propagandaarchive.org

"We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19" was a December 2020 poster issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It announced four steps, saying "Stay Home," "Wear a Mask," "Avoid Crowds," and "Wash Hands" (CDC Stacks, control code CS321637, dated 12/21/2020).

What the sheet prints

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued this poster in December 2020. The control line in the lower corner reads CS321637 and 12/21/2020. The headline is longer than the 1943 factory sheet that used the same first four words. This page is the 2020 object. The Westinghouse poster remains at We Can Do It! (1943).

We Can Do It!

We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19.

Stay Home

Wear a Mask

Avoid Crowds

Wash Hands

cdc.gov/coronavirus

CS321637 12/21/2020

Text read from the image on the FRAME record, which marks the transcription as read from the image and not independently checked. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. CDC Stacks record cdc:106418.

Four small pictures sit under those four captions: a house, a masked face, two figures kept apart, and hands being washed. The Department of Health and Human Services mark and the CDC mark are at the lower left. The archive describes a woman in a blue work shirt, masked, with one arm flexed, beside a man in overalls and a surgical mask. That description is the catalog's, attached to this scan.

Issuer and rights

The tombstone names the issuer as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and dates the sheet 21 December 2020. The rights line calls it a U.S. government work in the public domain and points at CDC Stacks. This site does not host the file. The picture above is the archive's copy.

Nothing on the sheet states a vaccination rate, a case count, or a result. It lists four requests. This page does not grade those requests.

Sources

  • FRAME object record, CDC "We Can Do It" COVID-19 poster, including the image transcription and the rights line. Catalog date 21 December 2020. propagandaarchive.org.
  • CDC Stacks, Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library, record cited by the archive as cdc:106418. Control code on the sheet: CS321637, 12/21/2020.