Public health officials pressured the Biden administration to declare monkeypox a public health emergency, and resource shortages forced clinics to distribute vaccines and treatments, leaving some patients with monkeypox. He even says he has motivation to go to Canada for the smallpox vaccine.
The White House took action on Tuesday to step up its response, with President Joe Biden appointing Federal Emergency Management Agency Regional Administrator Robert Fenton as National Monkeypox Response Coordinator and Demetre Dascalakis as the National Monkeypox Response Coordinator. Appointed head of the Department of Control and Prevention Center. As Deputy Coordinator of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
The White House said Fenton and Daskarakis will focus on increasing access to testing, vaccination and treatment equitably. The United States has now secured 1.1 million doses of her Jynneos vaccine to prevent monkeypox and is distributing it to states based on population and number of cases.
Federal and state public health officials say the CDC has detected 5,800 monkeypox cases in the United States, possibly underestimated because some people with the virus have not been tested. said that
State public health officials say they need more from the federal government. They say declaring a national public health emergency may not only direct more funding to states for the response, but it may also make it easier to get vaccines and treatments. .
