a monkeypox coordinator to help in the response to the outbreak. joining us now is dr. anthony fauci, chief medical adviser on covid and infectious diseases. dr. fauci, thank you for being with us. what exactly who a monkeypox adviser do and how difficult for the administration to it s hands around? it s social a reasonable problem and to get someone responsible for the overall coordination of it. there are several aspects, obviously as an infectious disease, as you showed the numbers, john, it s a growing problem. the world health organization has declared an issue of international concern. there are now over 80 countries throughout the world who have cases, more than 16,000 cases in endemic countries.
is what we need. but we have to show up for them with those doses of vaccine and easy testing. that s the thing, i have heard from members of the gay community who are extra sensitive and want to make sure they don t get monkeypox because of the disproportionate way that community is taking the hit on this. they say that it s tough getting the vaccine for it. do you think the biden administration is doing everything it can do? so i think that if they name a monkeypox coordinator, they will then be doing everything they can do. what we have seen over the last two months is honestly a little bit of a debacle, but what it comes from is the fact you have a whole bunch of different agencies that are all trying to run this. no one person taking charge and saying it s time to get vaccines. it s time to release the vaccines from denmark and get them here. it s time to roll out testing and to make it really easy for clinicians to get it. so i think having a single person at the helm of all
name a full-time monkeypox coordinator as the world health organization declares a global public health emergency. a spokesperson for the w.h.o. joins me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to all the latest developments in the january 6th investigation. the select committee is not slowing down at all. releasing new evidence today showing donald trump crossed out key parts of the speech he delivered the day after the capitol riot. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. he s joining us now. tell us more, evan. what are you learning? we know that the former president was resistant to trying to stop the violence. one of the things we learned from the committee today, this is incredible, that this did not make the cut for last week s
your community. but how it s dealt with in your government is a decision for your government. the white house is expected to name a monkeypox coordinator. is that strong enough? is that a strong enough step in your view? certainly, that s exactly what we re asking for, a coordinating response. that s one of our top recommendations. and made on saturday when the director general decided to raise our highest alert by calling it a public health emergency of international concern. the other things we re really asking is that we work in every country with affected communities and take leadership from them, help get them to help us to communicate what the issues are and to find ways to stop the transmission. the former u.s. fda commissioner, dr. scott gottlieb tweeted this. let me put it up on the screen. if we have allowed monkeypox to become an epidemic in the u.s., which is becoming an