---
title: '"We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19": CDC poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cdc-we-can-do-it-covid-2020/
description: 'A CDC public-health poster redraws the wartime ''We Can Do It!'' worker pose: a woman in a blue work shirt flexing her arm, now behind a polka-dot face…'
section: Collection
---

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[!["We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19": CDC poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cdc-we-can-do-it-covid-2020.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cdc-we-can-do-it-covid-2020.jpg)

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

A CDC public-health poster redraws the wartime 'We Can Do It!' worker pose: a woman in a blue work shirt flexing her arm, now behind a polka-dot face mask, beside a man in overalls and a surgical mask with folded arms, under the headline 'We Can Do It! We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19.' The tell is the borrowed icon: the prestige of 1940s home-front mobilisation is attached to four requested habits (stay home, wear a mask, avoid crowds, wash hands).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
We Can Do It!
We Can Slow the Spread of COVID-19.

Stay Home
Wear a Mask
Avoid Crowds
Wash Hands

cdc.gov/coronavirus

[logos of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC, lower left]
CS321637 12/21/2020
```

The four captions sit under four small pictograms (a house, a masked face, two figures with a double arrow, hands being washed). The control code at the lower right is very small.

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