Slow response to monkeypox exposes ‘tired,
overworked’ US health agencies
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/1/2022 2:26:45 PM
A “slow and bureaucratic” response that has seen monkeypox spread rapidly across the US–with more than a thousand cases in New York City alone–reveals just how badly battered local health agencies have been since the Covid pandemic, advocates have said. Once a rare African virus, monkeypox has taken hold amid the ragged patchwork of city, county, state and federal agencies that make up the US public health infrastructure. “Unfortunately, delayed actions mean monkeypox has spread within the gay community and among other men who have sex with men,” said David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors.(Snip)“The system is tired, it’s overworked, it’s underpaid,
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Had they not thrown him out of office, every finger would be pointed at Donald Trump personally, as done with Covid and Dopey Joe's secret plan to combat same. So instead, we're treated to a chorus of how the World's Greatest Boondoggle Government Bureaucracy, which caters in full to the LGBTQI+ sector, is underworked and overpaid.