diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4b5efe120..30e0e5ac9 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ Imports:
     vctrs,
     workflows (>= 1.0.0)
 Suggests:
-    covidcast,
     data.table,
     epidatr (>= 1.0.0),
     fs,
@@ -61,6 +60,7 @@ Suggests:
     quantreg,
     ranger,
     RcppRoll,
+    readr,
     rmarkdown,
     smoothqr,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
diff --git a/data-raw/case_death_rate_subset.R b/data-raw/case_death_rate_subset.R
index 4bf416dbf..4fa3e64a7 100644
--- a/data-raw/case_death_rate_subset.R
+++ b/data-raw/case_death_rate_subset.R
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 library(tidyverse)
-library(covidcast)
 library(epidatr)
 library(epiprocess)
 
-x <- covidcast(
+x <- pub_covidcast(
   data_source = "jhu-csse",
   signals = "confirmed_7dav_incidence_prop",
   time_type = "day",
@@ -11,10 +10,9 @@ x <- covidcast(
   time_values = epirange(20201231, 20211231),
   geo_values = "*"
 ) %>%
-  fetch() %>%
   select(geo_value, time_value, case_rate = value)
 
-y <- covidcast(
+y <- pub_covidcast(
   data_source = "jhu-csse",
   signals = "deaths_7dav_incidence_prop",
   time_type = "day",
@@ -22,7 +20,6 @@ y <- covidcast(
   time_values = epirange(20201231, 20211231),
   geo_values = "*"
 ) %>%
-  fetch() %>%
   select(geo_value, time_value, death_rate = value)
 
 case_death_rate_subset <- x %>%
diff --git a/data-raw/state_census.R b/data-raw/state_census.R
index 22dde5a41..cfa74d38b 100644
--- a/data-raw/state_census.R
+++ b/data-raw/state_census.R
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 library(dplyr)
 library(tidyr)
 
-state_census <- covidcast::state_census %>%
+state_census <- readr::read_csv("https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast/raw/c89e4d295550ba1540d64d2cc991badf63ad04e5/Python-packages/covidcast-py/covidcast/geo_mappings/state_census.csv") %>% # nolint: line_length_linter
   select(STATE, NAME, POPESTIMATE2019, ABBR) %>%
   rename(abbr = ABBR, name = NAME, pop = POPESTIMATE2019, fips = STATE) %>%
   mutate(abbr = tolower(abbr)) %>%
   as_tibble()
 
-
 usethis::use_data(state_census, overwrite = TRUE)