White House declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency | USA TODAY

As monkeypox cases rise across the states, the Biden administration says they are taking additional steps to stop the spread of the virus.
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The monkeypox outbreak that has infected more than 6,600 people in the United States is a public health emergency, the Biden administration declared Thursday, a move that could make it easier to tap funding and wield the federal bureaucracy to combat the once-rare disease.

The declaration came more than a week after the head of the World Health Organization, on July 23, said the "extraordinary” situation qualifies as a global emergency.

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  2. How is it a health emergency when it’s for the most part only effecting a small group of people (male to male partners/people they come into close contact with) … this is insane…

    1. @Danielle Atterberry It’s not true. 1. They are only testing gay people and its hard to get tested if you are not a gay man, 2. despite this difficulty Indiana still has 20% cases in straight women.

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  3. How the actual Fffffffffff can we be unprepared after going through what we just gone through??

  4. THEY are going to do everything they can to end this outbreak……L M A O!!!!!!!!!!!! RIGHT….. just like everything else.🤣😂

  5. As well as an outbreak of even more cynical sarcasm in the social media comments.
    How came that about?

  6. What she said: ‘We are going to do everything we can to end this outbreak…‘
    What I heard: ‘blah blah blah…’

  7. I pray this outbreak is quickly contained. However, I do see a possible future nationwide lockdown if the government is slow to react; the COVID Pandemic cannot be repeated for the sake of the sanity and safety for all Mankind.

  8. God will protect us keep the faith everything else will work it self out 🐵 pox ,covic,cancer all those evil disease.

  9. So as you know, uh, we’re going to, uh, make the pharma as much money as we, uh, promised them, uh, we

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