Joe Biden is Worried About Monkeypox

The President of the United States is concerned about the spread of monkeypox if it becomes more widespread.

The disease was confirmed in the US and countries in Europe this week, and President Joe Biden addressed a press pool while traveling to Japan.

Biden told reporters at the press event that if it were to spread it would be consequential.

It is good to know that Biden is paying attention. According to the Center for Disease Control, the disease causes a rash that turns into blisters. Monkeypox is not a problem in the US, as UCLA epidemiology professor Anne Rimoin told USA Today.

The CDC says that monkeypox was first recorded in the 70s, but the media still views it as less of a priority. That's why previous outbreaks wouldn't have concerned us before and it's similar to the way we're just catching up on the news that Ukraine has been under attack. A few more of us are paying attention now that Americans are faced with the possibility of a second Pandemic so close to the one we are still in. It's worth nothing that publications for health professionals, like the peer-reviewed journal the BMJ, typically call monkeypox, despite the fact that the CDC says it kills as many as 1 in 10 people.

Many experts say that monkeypox isn't likely to kill as many people as COVID-19 because we already have a vaccine and people in the US are less likely to die.

If it does get out of hand, it will be because we created the same inequality, fear of health science and lack of public messaging that gave us the coronaviruses epidemic in the first place.

Yes, cheer up! The residents of the apartments in the city haven't yet found a way to make government lock downs contagious.

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