describing the U.S. response to monkeypox....here's the section that excerpt came from...
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In describing the U.S. response to monkeypox, “the main adjective that comes to mind is sluggish,” says Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. She published a June 24 essay in the Atlantic arguing that the country was underreacting to monkeypox. At that time the “fire was already being lit,” she says: the U.K. and Canada had already started vaccinating people. “I was actually surprised that we are this far behind.”
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This outbreak just started two months ago, and while ubiquitous testing and availability of vaccines is not at a desired level yet, both aspects are being aggressively ramped up as this and other articles show...and while it is a serious disease, it is nowhere near as transmissible or deadly as SARS-CoV-2, which the CDC is still actively dealing with.
Would be nice if the CDC were totally ready for Monkeypox at the beginning of May, but that's IMO asking a bit much...from what I've read, we should be in much better shape by August....let's see if that's true.
On the positive side, the CDC didn't call it a "Hoax"...