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A case of monkeypox In the U.S., it has declined as vaccinations have increased, the White House said Wednesday.
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the White House’s deputy national monkeypox response coordinator, said more than 460,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine have been administered.
The White House also plans to increase provision of vaccines The Associated Press (AP) at the upcoming LGBTQ Pride Festival.
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“Our goal is to control this outbreak in the United States,” Daskalakis said. “We are making great progress. A shot in the arm. Now that supply is less of an issue, we need to focus on maintaining demand. “
As of Wednesday, there were 21,274 confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Monkeypox cases are declining, but the racial disparity in cases is widening after peaking at 870 in a single day last month, the AP reports.
While cases among white men have declined in recent weeks, CDC data shows that black and Latinx people are disproportionately infected.
According to the Associated Press, blacks accounted for about 38% of infections in the last week of August, despite less than a quarter of the cases reported early in the epidemic.
Meanwhile, Latinos make up about a third of those infected, according to the AP.
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Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the AP that these numbers show that vaccines and messages are not reaching black and Latino communities well enough.
“This shows that the intervention needs a major recalibration,” said Adalja. “It’s not as impactful as it should be.”
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On Wednesday, Daskalakis said the White House is working to get vaccines for local LGBTQ organizations, To increase access specifically to Black and Latino communities, AP reported.
“Thousands of people are receiving protection against monkeypox that they might not have otherwise received,” Daskalakis said. shows that.”
The United States has the highest number of cases in the world, according to the CDC’s global map and case counts.
“Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, which is part of the same virus family as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox,” the CDC said on its website. .
Symptoms of monkeypox are milder than those of smallpox, and monkeypox is rarely fatal.
According to the CDC, the virus is not related to chickenpox. Monkeypox was discovered in 1958 when two of his pox-like illnesses occurred in monkeys kept for research.
Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Reilly and Associated Press contributed to this report.