Dr. Demetre Daskalakis - White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.
Posted on 09/07/2022 3:48:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Wednesday it’s optimistic about a decline in monkeypox cases and an uptick in vaccinations against the infectious virus, despite worsening racial disparities in reported cases.
Promising to ramp up vaccination offerings at LGBTQ Pride festivals around the country in the coming weeks, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy coordinator of the White House national monkeypox response, said more than 460,000 doses have been given.
The U.S. leads the world with infections — as of Tuesday 20,733 cases had been reported — with men accounting for about 98% of cases and men who said they had recent sexual contact with other men about 93% of cases.
While cases in white men have dropped in recent weeks, Black people are making up a growing percentage of infections — nearly 38% during the final week of August, according to the latest data available. In the early weeks of the monkeypox outbreak, Black people made up less than a quarter of reported cases.
Latinos are also disproportionately infected, making up nearly a third of infections in recent weeks.
That trend means that public health messaging and vaccines are not effectively reaching those communities, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
“That tells you there needs to be a major recalibration in your interventions,” Adalja said. “It’s not as impactful as it should be.”
The Biden administration has struggled since the beginning with its response to the outbreak when it was first identified in May.
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Women and minorities most affected.
Men who have sexual relations with other men are a minority and thank goodness otherwise the human race would have died out a long time ago.
Well, certain black minorities and men who think they are women are most affected.
Being that they are now saying it is mostly sexually transmitted, did they ever find out how those children and that dog got it?
Ah, simple-minded liberals. Everything has racial overtones.
At least, to those to whom life is complex, not understandable, and viewable only through a very narrow lens.
So for the public, does that mean things are improving, or getting worse?
Are we to feel safer, or more guilty?
my gay nephew is so proud of his mp vaxx.
“Promising to ramp up vaccination offerings at LGBTQ Pride festivals around the country in the coming weeks”
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hUH? The faggots already had an entire MONTH to declare their pooftery, and there’s still more?? It wasn’t enough?
So the conclusion is that a higher percentage of ‘latinos’ are homosexual?
He seems a bit light in the loafers. And his inverted pentagram is inverted.
So the disease is racist.
Big deal.
Having low-down sex in the black community is huge.
Seriously?🤢🤮
That’s a Kansas City Faggot if I ever saw one.
Gee AmandaMaybe all cultures and behaviors are not alike
What in the wide wide world of Sports is going on here?
There is another disparity that is omitted. It affects men more than women. That is ok with the author.
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