"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).
- Date
- December 21, 2020
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Trump Administration
- Leader
- Donald Trump
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Theme
- Health
- Event
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Regime
- Trump administration
- Leader
- Donald Trump
- 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
- Rights
- 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
Text on the object
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.
