A new cluster of mpox cases in the United States — following nearly seven months of steady decline — is leading health officials to warn of a possible rebound outbreak this summer.
Chicago health officials recently reported 20 new cases and are urging people there to get vaccinated.
On May 11, the World Health Organization declared the mpox global health emergency over, a year after the virus spread beyond its endemic regions. “We are in that place where we are going to expect seeing clusters, but we have our mission, which is to vaccinate people so we can make sure that we prevent them,” he told The Times.
Despite the worries of a rebound, the dramatic decline in cases —from 600 cases nationwide on Aug. 1, 2022, to a weekly average of one in April — represents somewhat of a success story in suppressing the virus, at least for now.Some health experts credit President Biden for moving aggressively to address the mpox health crisis.
The current outbreak has seen widespread community transmission and been detected in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The standard time to fill the form for Tpoxx took doctors two hours, Daskalakis said, before efforts were made to shorten it to 15 minutes. So when a new virus threatened that community, compliance with public health messaging was strong and — in stark contrast to COVID-19 — there was little resistance to vaccinations.
However, there is still a lot of work to be done. The CDC estimates that only 23% of people in the at-risk groups have gotten the vaccine. This is perhaps a symptom of pandemic fatigue after many unsuccessful attempts to get the vaccine combined with a perceived reduction of risk as cases waned.
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