With cases on the rise across the US, the Biden administration plans to declare monkeypox a public health emergency, a source says.
The announcement would come from the Department of Health and Human Services. With cases on the rise across the US, the administration has been criticized at times for its handling of the outbreak, and some have called on the government to declare a national emergency without delay. Politico was first to report on the expected declaration.Since the first US monkeypox case was identified in mid-May, more than 6,600 probable or confirmed cases have been detected in the United States.
Demetre Daskalakis, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, serves as the deputy coordinator.The Biden administration has been heavily criticized by some public health experts for not moving faster to address the crisis.
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