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As monkeypox continues to surge in the United States, President Biden’s health secretary plans to declare a national health emergency, perhaps as soon as Thursday, according to a federal official familiar with the discussions.
The declaration, which many experts said was long overdue, would signal that the outbreak now represents a significant threat to Americans and set in motion a variety of measures devised to turn the tide. It would give federal agencies the power to direct money toward developing and evaluating vaccines and drugs, to access emergency funding and to hire additional workers to help manage the outbreak, which began in May.
As of Wednesday, the United States had recorded nearly 7,000 monkeypox cases, with the highest rates per capita in Washington, New York and Georgia. More than 99 percent of the cases are among men who have sex with men.
The virus is transmitted mostly during close physical contact; the infection is rarely fatal — no deaths have been reported here — but can be very painful. The United States has among the highest rates in the world, and the number is expected to rise as surveillance and testing improve.
Declaring monkeypox an emergency sends “a strong message that this is important, that it must be dealt with now,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the W.H.O.'s advisory panel on monkeypox.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: v1rtu0s0
Actually quarantine the gay communities, keep them in lockdown and stop them from sleeping with each other. Then give the vaccine priority in this communities.
That out of stop this, soo far all the cases in GA are within men to men.
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: Asktheanimals
You are right, I did not know it was one dead case, but from 7000 thousand, humm, this is an agenda, especially with midterm coming, also this will give powers to the federal government to take tax dollars at will and allocate them to whatever in the name of emergency.
Seems to me like a big overreach to keep bankrupting the taxpayer and the nation, this will add more to already overspending and runaway inflation. just like the covid relief and the waste and abuse of tax dollars, beside making trillionaires within the Pharma mafia.
Something fishy here.