Indicates an accelerating spread. And heres a look at a timeline of the rise in those cases. Last month, Sonoma County reported 7 cases of monkeypox in the next week. It was 11 cases today. It is reporting 17 cases. Thats a jump described as bigger than Health Officials expect and kron fours terisa stasio reports. Health Officials Say monkeypox cases more than doubled from 7 to 17 cases. They issued a letter late friday acknowledging the Public Health emergency and the work supplying vaccines. But adding they are insufficient to deal with the demand for doing inadequate number of testing is we do more testing. Were going to see more cases. So i think. For the near future, we are going to see these numbers continue to rise. How fast are going to rise is is really anybodys guess at this point. But i i do think theyre going to continue to go up. Doctor John Swartzberg with Uc Berkeley School of Public Health says the situation with monkeypox is similar to the beginning of the covid19 pand