Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

After news broke that the U.S. declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, friends and family started asking me, an infectious disease epidemiologist, if monkeypox is about to begin causing widespread death and chaos. I assured them that Aug. 4, 2022, public health emergency declaration is about government resource allocation. Similar to the World Health Organization’s declaration of monkeypox as a public health emergency of international concern, the U.S. declaration isn’t calling for individuals who are not in a high-risk group to change anything about their lives.

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