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The Biden administration s decision to declare monkeypox a public health emergency could make it easier to deploy the federal bureaucracy against the once-rare disease.
As monkeypox cases in the United States continue to rise, the Department of Health and Human Services will begin shipping additional vaccine doses to states and jurisdictions beginning tomorrow.
ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) With new cases of monkeypox emerging rapidly across the country, the Biden administration is weighing whether to declare the growing outbreak a public health emergency, federal health officials said on Thursday. "We continue to monitor the response throughout the country on monkeypox," Health and Human Service Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a briefing Thursday. "We will weigh any decision on declaring a public health emergency based on the response we're seeing throughout the country. The bottom line is: we need to stay ahead of this and be able to end this outbreak." Across the country, more than 4,600 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed across 48 jurisdictions, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Globally, more than 20,000 cases have been reported a total that health experts say is likely significantly undercounted. "Every American should pay attention to monkey