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On Friday, British health officials said that the spread of monkeypox across the country may have reached its peak and that the rate of growth has slowed.
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According to the Associated Press, President Joe Biden's administration will declare a public health emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak in the United States.
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On Thursday's episode of CNN's 'The Lead,' White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about how the Biden administration has been criticized for taking so long to order monkeypox vaccines. In response, she said that the administration knew it needed to act back in May, when it 'heard about the first couple of cases, and then it changed.' Something that infectious diseases tend to do, which is something that is 'inherently known.'
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The governor of California declared a state of emergency on Monday to speed up efforts to stop the spread of monkeypox. This is the second state in three days to do this.
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The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) recently decided to declare monkeypox a 'public health emergency,' and diagnostic test manufacturers in China anticipate significant financial gain as a result. The W.H.O. requested mass orders of monkeypox testing kits from at least two such manufacturers shortly after the declaration, according to Tuesday's report in China's state-run Global Times.
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On Saturday, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency because monkeypox is spreading around the world without being stopped.
On Friday, British health officials said that the spread of monkeypox across the country may have reached its peak and that the rate of growth has slowed.
