{"id":8474,"date":"2022-07-29T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:16:07","slug":"we-dont-need-a-white-house-monkeypox-coordinator-we-just-need-the-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"We Don’t Need a White House Monkeypox ‘Coordinator.’ We Just Need the Vaccines."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“We’re up to about 3,600 known cases of monkeypox<\/a> in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That’s more than double the number of cases from just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the federal government struggles to distribute vaccines where they’re needed, The Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a> that the White House is thinking of declaring a public health emergency and naming a “White House coordinator” to oversee the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public response should be: Please don’t. Please just get the vaccines to local public health agencies and let them deal with it. Because right now, that’s about half the problem that’s causing monkeypox to spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red tape from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the CDC left more than a million monkeypox vaccine doses stuck in storage in Denmark<\/a>, and then another roll of red tape<\/a> made it incredibly difficult for doctors to prescribe an alternative monkeypox treatment because it’s still in clinical trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, local health agencies have had to carefully portion out vaccines to the highest-risk citizens\u2014and they’re still<\/em> running out. In Los Angeles<\/a>, the county Public Health Department will only administer to people who are infected, people who have had high-risk contact (typically sex) with somebody who is infected, and then gay or bisexual men or trans people who fit in one of the [certain] categories”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Fortunately, monkeypox’s spread has still remained pretty limited even as it has grown. The percentage of growth seems huge because we’re dealing with a fairly low baseline. And though monkeypox is not technically a sexually transmitted disease\u2014it is spread through contact with the rashes and lesions created by the virus as well as through saliva\u2014this particular version of monkeypox has been pretty resistant so far to being spread through methods other than sexual contact.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We Don’t Need a White House Monkeypox ‘Coordinator.’ We Just Need the Vaccines.<\/a><\/blockquote>