The announcement comes as nationwide case counts reach 7,000
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizationsThe Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday, freeing up more resources to combat the disease and expanding the CDC’s ability to share data, report NPR’s Will Stone and Jane Greenhalgh.
“We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus and we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously,” said Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, during a Thursday press briefing, per NPR.
USA Today: Monkeypox Outbreak In US Now World's Biggest After COVID-Like Mistakes Monkeypox was supposed to be different ... Yet the United States now has the world's biggest outbreak of monkeypox: More than 6,600 Americans have been diagnosed since mid-May. Rarely seen outside Africa before the spring, the virus, a less deadly cousin of smallpox, has now triggered a 26,000-person global emergency, reaching 83 countries, 76 of which had not historically seen the disease. (Weintraub, 8/4)
This has gotta be one for the record books when monkeypox is not a threat to the general population: Meet the next Covid regime.![]()