HHS May Declare Emergency On Monkeypox [VIDEO]

“In the U.S. right now, we’re looking at public health emergency as something that HHS might deliver, might invoke but, you know, it really depends on what does that allow us to do.

“Right now we have over 2000 cases, but we have ramped up vaccinations, ramped up treatments, ramped up testing, and we’re going to continue to look at all sort of policy options.

“Right now, we think we can get our arms around this thing, but obviously, if we need further tools, we will invoke them as we need them.

“We are seeing outbreaks that are out of control in many, many parts of the world. It’s very important that we get our arms around this thing.” – White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, today on Face the Nation.

“I do think monkeypox can be contained,” Dr. Ashish Jha tells @margbrennan while explaining a “straightforward strategy” of making testing “widely available” key to doing so. pic.twitter.com/4gj901KUNH

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 24, 2022

For the second time in two years, the WHO has taken the extraordinary step of declaring a global emergency. This time the cause is monkeypox, which has spread in just a few weeks to dozens of countries and infected tens of thousands of people. https://t.co/2x59kkkYbb pic.twitter.com/Sjp273HtJY

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 23, 2022