Coronavirus: Thread

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Fri Jul 29 19:53:13 PDT 2022


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State Of Emergency In San Francisco Declared Over Monkeypox Spread

https://www.theepochtimes.com/peer-reviewed-study-finds-monkeypox-primarily-transmitted-sexually-by-men_4616663.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/state-of-emergency-in-san-francisco-declared-over-monkeypox-spread_4629467.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/monkeypox-joins-covid-19-as-global-health-emergency-who-says_4617469.html

Authored by Mimi Nguyen Ly via The Epoch Times,

A state of emergency has been announced in San Francisco on July 28
over the spread of monkeypox, a viral disease that has spread to more
than 70 countries since the start of 2022.

    “San Francisco is declaring a Local Public Health Emergency for
monkeypox,” London Breed, the mayor of the city, announced.

    “This declaration will go into effect starting Aug. 1 and will
allow us to prepare and dedicate resources to prevent the spread.”

The declaration is a legal document that allows authorities to
mobilize city resources, streamline staffing, and coordinate agencies
across the city, as well as speed up emergency planning and allow for
future reimbursement by the state and federal governments, she said in
a statement.

The move also raises awareness in San Francisco about how to stop the
spread of monkeypox, Breed added.

The city has at least 281 cases out of about 800 in California and
about 4,907 across the United States as of late July 28—including
probable cases—according to data from San Francisco’s health
department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a news conference
outside of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco,
Calif., on March 17, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Cases of monkeypox have increased in California since late June—the
end of Pride Month.

    “San Francisco is an epicenter for the country. Thirty percent of
all cases in California are in San Francisco,” said San Francisco
Public Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip.

    San Francisco shut down its primary monkeypox vaccination clinic
earlier this week after it ran out of doses, saying it had only
received 7,800 doses of a requested 35,000.

    “That is not nearly enough, and the reality is we are going to
need far more than 35,000 vaccines to protect our LGBTQ community and
to slow the spread of this virus,” Breed said.

A study published in the Journal of New England Medicine on July
21—the first major peer-reviewed study of monkeypox
infections—indicated that a vast majority of people with monkeypox
were gay or bisexual men, and a vast majority of the infections were
suspected to have occurred through sexual activity in 95 percent of
those infected. Researchers had observed monkeypox infection across 16
countries between April and June, when cases began to be reported in
countries outside of Africa.

    “San Francisco was at the forefront of the public health responses
to HIV and COVID-19, and we will be at the forefront when it comes to
monkeypox,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents
San Francisco.

    “We can’t and won’t leave the LGTBQ community out to dry.”

Mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions (L), and spherical immature
virions (R), obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the
2003 prairie dog outbreak. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC
via AP)

The San Francisco mayor clarified that officials “are not implementing
behavior restrictions or other measures like we did under COVID.”

    “This is all about having the resources and ability to move
quickly to deploy these resources,” Breed said.

She said the emergency declaration “must be adopted by the Board of
Supervisors within a week,” adding on July 28 that the board “has
agreed to convene an emergency meeting next week to consider this
emergency.”

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on July 23 declared
the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, citing the global
growth in cases—even though a special advisory committee did not reach
a consensus on whether to declare the global health emergency.


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