Posted on 04/28/2023 10:15:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The analysis of last year’s numbers is leading the CDC to call for equity-based medical service strategies, despite the very low level of fatality associated with the infection.
The analysis of last year’s numbers is leading the CDC to call for equity-based medical service strategies, despite the very low level of fatality associated with the infection.
Posted by Leslie Eastman at 07:00pm 32 Comments Share This StoryFacebookTwitterTelegramGabMeWeRedditEmail
The last time I reported on monkeypox, House Republicans were demanding answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) related to research experiments they say could result in a “supercharged” monkeypox virus that the agency funded.
While there is no update on any answers, there is news about monkeypox…which has now been rebranded “mpox” out of concern for woke sensibilities.
Based on new modeling, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that the US could see a renewed surge of mpox infections even worse than last year, new federal modeling has concluded.
The agency is pushing for enhanced vaccination, especially in “at-risk” groups.
With “moderate confidence,” the CDC’s modelers said in a report published Thursday that most parts of the country have a “greater than 35%” risk of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, resurging over the coming months.
“It’s not us saying get more people vaccinated because we think it’s a good idea. We need to get more people vaccinated because we know there’s a linear relationship between how many people are vaccinated and the chance of not having an outbreak,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator for the White House’s mpox response, told CBS News on Thursday.
The CDC estimates that just 23% of the “at-risk population” for mpox, like men who have sex with men and people with multiple sex partners, have been fully vaccinated. Vaccination rates are in the single digits across many states.
San Francisco’s public health community continues to urge people to get vaccinated for mpox after a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report concluded that the United States may see a worse outbreak of the disease this year than in 2022. Locally, mpox vaccinations are expected to be offered at community events leading up to Pride in June.
But both the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation stressed to the Bay Area Reporter that last year’s vaccination efforts paid dividends — the city hasn’t seen a case since January 20, according to DPH’s seven-day rolling average — and also put the city on a better track to face a potential resurgence.
“Last year, SFDPH and the community came together to stop the spread of mpox, and over 50,000 doses of the vaccine have been administered in San Francisco,” the department stated to the B.A.R. “Forty-two percent of all people living with HIV in San Francisco, and 65% of people who had received PrEP at SF City Clinic prior to June 2022 had received at least one dose of mpox vaccine as of November 4, 2022. This is significantly higher than CDC’s nationwide estimate, that nationwide, 23% of the ‘at-risk’ population has been vaccinated.”
The CDC also recently release new data on the 2022 mpox deaths. According to the information analyzed, almost 90% of mpox-related deaths in the country were among black men, and nearly all had weakened immune systems.
This, in turn, is leading to calls for equity-based medical service strategies, despite the very low level of fatality associated with the infection.
From May 2022 to March 2023, 30,235 people in the US were diagnosed with mpox, previously known as monkeypox. Thirty-eight deaths were linked to mpox; 36 of them were men, and 33 were Black men. The average age of those who died was 34.
… Although most of the people who died got one or more prompt treatments and intensive care, nearly a quarter had delays of three to seven weeks from diagnosis to treatment, and two got no treatment for mpox.
“These findings highlight the importance of integrating prevention, testing, and treatment for multiple sexually associated infections,” the report says. “Equitable access to prevention, treatment, and engagement and retention in care for both mpox and HIV should be prioritized, particularly among [b]lack men and other persons at risk for sexually associated infections.”
A separate CDC report published Thursday urged equity-based strategies, such as tailored messages and expanded vaccine services, to increase vaccination among racial and ethnic minorities.
The actual CDC report contains an eye-popping list of woke reasons for personal choices regarding obtaining the mpox vaccination.
Black and Hispanic males might face barriers to prevention, including access to information and to mpox vaccines resulting from gaps in dissemination of information, language barriers, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, stigma, discrimination, unemployment, and poverty (9). In addition, homophily in sexual partnership selection patterns has been associated with increased disparities in the incidence of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV (10) and might be associated with disparities in mpox incidence.
I suspect that if this year’s surge is worse, the results will be used as even more of an excuse to push for an equity-based approach to medicine.
Some men are gay. It’s a fact. Not a reason to attack them.
People who engage in anonymous sex & orgies risk disease.
Anonymous sex & orgies are popular with gay men.
Gay men’s behavior, entirely within their control, spreads the disease. Hard to say anything other than “sorry dude, you knew the risks, you now pay the price”. We’re all adults and make choices. Reaping the rewards/living with the consequences is what sentient beings do.
I have gay neighbors [3 households on my block - it is LA, after all]. Totally fine people in committed relationships. We have toy drives at X-Mas. They’re welcome guests to our block-bbq’s. Their yards are tidy, don’t interfere with my enjoyment of my property, and keep their personal matters personal. Great neighbors. They’re not worried about monkeypox because they don’t frequent gay bath houses.
equity-based medical service strategies -
But isn’t everyone equally likely to find themselves getting corn holed by a stranger in a public park restroom who is anally injecting them with monkeypox?!?
The are the same tards who told us that everyone is equally likely to get and die of COVID, equally likely to get and die from AIDS, etc., etc. Wow listens to these idiots anymore?
OMG OMG OMG we’re all gonna die, again. More fear porn.
Don’t monkey around and you won’t get it!
No worries for the grand majority of American men as we don’t poke our peters in other men’s smelly hole.
So are they calling for MASKS? Can we ask what country it came from?
The f#@*in Catalina Wine Mixer!!
Give it a couple of "Pride months."
A what? We know there's no such thing or we would be having an out of control epidemic of the stuff, and we don't. The only linear relationship here is between anal sex, immune compromise, and infection.
Well you should know that while you aren’t “attacking” gays, they are attaching you by their strong support of the leftist agenda. Ask them who they voted for and tell them who you voted for and get back to us.
Some, yes, and its odious.
Tons of straight men are evil commies, too.
What’s your point?
Here we go again.
It should read "CDC warns Bud Light spokesperson Dylan Mulvaney at risk for Monkeypox surge"
With some things they do. If a highly favored victim group is at risk, you can be sure they'll get the truth from the CDC in buckets.
If the alphabet-soup crowd would stop screwing around m-pox along with most STDs could be eliminated in short order.
just keep your 5th appendage out of other people’s elimination exists and you’ll be OK ...
“Schlong COVID”
Nevermind
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