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Today, Explained

Monkeypox!?!?

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Good news: Epidemiologists don’t think monkeypox will be as bad as Covid-19. Bad news: We stopped vaccinating people against this type of disease decades ago. Vox reporter (and resident epidemiologist) Keren Landman explains. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained   Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, so you've been worrying about COVID-19 for like two years or whatever it is at this

0:06.0

point.

0:07.0

And now there's this monkey pox thing.

0:10.0

Tick your sticking paws off me, you damn dirty ape.

0:16.0

WHO's Dr. Rosam and Lewis said there are over 250 confirmed and suspected cases of monkey

0:22.4

pox in at least 16 countries.

0:26.2

I don't want to freak anyone out here.

0:28.7

It's almost certainly not going to be as bad as COVID.

0:32.5

It's not particularly new and we've already got vaccines that can prevent spread.

0:38.3

All that being said, no one was asking for another thing to worry about, but here is

0:43.8

yet another thing.

0:46.5

What in the H.E. double hockey sticks is monkey pox and how are we going to deal with this

0:52.4

thing?

0:53.4

Now I'm Sean Rommesferm.

0:56.0

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0:59.3

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1:04.9

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1:10.5

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1:14.9

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1:16.3

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1:18.8

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1:23.0

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