The White House claimed on Sunday that the monkeypox epidemic could be ‘eliminated’ from the United States with more vaccines and testing available, as the WHO triggered its highest level ever. warning about this disease.
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“The plan is to eliminate the virus from the United States. We can do it,” said on the show Face The Nation, from CBS News, White House coronavirus response coordinator Ashish Jha.
“We acted quickly,” he said, responding to criticism that health authorities reacted too late since the first cases in May, before the virus spread, the vast majority among men who have sex with women. men.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dashboard as of July 22, 2,890 cases have been detected since the first case in the United States. Monkeypox is characterized by fever, rashes, and it usually heals on its own, but the disease can cause severe pain.
New York City (nearly 800 cases) protested the lack of vaccines, and Democratic House Representative Adam Schiff said the federal government was “not up to the task of responding needed.” “.
“When we started two months ago, we had a limited supply of vaccines,” replied Ashish Jha, “but we got more than any other country.” “Now we have over 300,000. We are going to distribute hundreds of thousands of them over the next few days and weeks,” he continued, referring to nearly 800,000 doses of Jynneos vaccine that were blocked. in Denmark, pending an inspection by the United States Medicines Agency (FDA).
On Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered the highest level of alert in an attempt to stem the surge in cases around the world.
Since early May, when monkeypox was detected outside African countries where it is endemic, more than 16,836 cases have been detected in 74 countries, according to the CDC.
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