Monkeypox cases in the United States reached a record high of 1,424 on Monday, the highest tally since the global outbreak.
With 8,934 cases overall as of Monday, the United States is on course to surpass 9,000 confirmed infections for the first time when officials provide updated data on Tuesday.With 8,934 cases overall as of Monday, the United States is on course to surpass 9,000 confirmed infections for the first time when officials provide updated data on Tuesday.
‘As we head into the fall, I’m concerned about outbreaks on college campuses as they are often a place where individuals engage in higher risk sexual activity and are in close contact with many different people,’ Dr Rachel Cox, an assistant professor in at the Mass General Health Institute of Health Professionals, told CNN.
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‘We need to make sure we’re prepared to allocate resources like tests, vaccines, and antivirals to places that may become hotspots.’
However, not all specialists agree that the pandemic will unquestionably get out of hand.
On Face the Nation on CBS on Sunday, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration and a current board member at pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer, said that while challenging, it is possible to stop monkeypox from becoming an endemic virus, a goal that officials probably failed to achieve with Covid.
‘There’s a potential to get this back in the box but its going to be very difficult at this point,’ Gottlieb said.
‘We’re continuing to look for cases in the community of men who have sex with men, its primarily spreading in that community, but there’s no question it has spread outside that community at this point and I think we need to start looking for cases more broadly.’
