with the phrase of global health emergency. but it s rare. it s not something they do very often. so why do you think in this case, was it a preemptive declaration to wake people up? or are we already further along? it s probably the best way to think about this is to think about it as galvanizing the world to take action. the actions we knew needed to be taken. this is something that needs to be contained. this is spreading outside of endemic countries and we don t want it to be in more countries. we need people to mobilize resources, vccines, testing, contact tracing, all that needs to start happening. that s what the public health emergency declaration does. so much disinformation, as you well know. we have talked about at the beginning and through the pandemic. it made a lot of people skeptical, doubting what the cdc had to say. making it clear to them that
populations. that s what will end this. just like that, we just need to get the vaccine out. that s essentially what members of congress are cig. so we have enough? we don t have enough. we re using a second generation vaccine, which is only a small supply. it s been a long time since they have ordered new vccines. now they are starting to finally increase the orders, get those mobilized. all of that slowed down how quickly it was available to the u.s. that s starting to get better, but it s going to be sometime before we get all our high risk populations vaccinated we have to start being innovative and prioritizing first doses like they are doing here in new york city. really making sure people are aware they are testing, we have all the resources and using the antiviral. there s a the lot of things that need to be done to manage this better, but it s something we have control measures that have worked in the past. because of the coronavirus, many people now are familiar
talk to me about the troelgs smallpox here and what people should know about that. yeah, so think of monkeypox in the same family of viruses as smallpox. but a much less severe type of disease. so smallpox had a higher mortality rate. this disease has a death rate of less than 1%. that s in countries with weaker health systems. i worked in liberia and we didn t have access to vccines. we have access to treatments here. that makes the risk substantially lower. the vaccine you mentioned is one type of vaccine that s available for dealing with mokeypox. there s also a vaccine that s been licensed for both smallpox and monkeypox. and that is quite effective, especially when given within four doifs an exposure to a patient. i would be remissed not to ask you about covid while you have you horro here. i m curious it you worry about
mandates. which is ridiculous. he staked out a position. as far as the former president goes, there is been a shift where he s looking for credit. we heard him talking about the vaccines and people should get the vccines and he s got the booster himself. he wants to credit credit for that. there is something more here which is not about what anger trump. it s not what desantis had not said whether he gotten a booster, what anger trumps is that he would not run for president in 2024 if trump does. so many other candidates have suggested that hey, if the former president wants in, i will bow out. desantis has poignantly not done that. that s what angers trump as he weighs his possible come back leading towards 2024 run.
vaccinations for children, age 5 to 11 to the food and drug administration and they are seeking emergency use authorization, what do you make of this. vaccines obviously seem to be on road safe. the vccines shown to be effective, getting in the arms of children from 11 down to 5. the fda, you would never want to get ahead of their judgment. the next few weeks, they ll examine that data and hopefully they ll get the okay so we can start vaccinating children, hopefully before the end of october. wow. dr. anthony fauci, thank you once again very much for everything you do and for being on the show this morning. and there seems to be a widening partisan gap in the