The race to contain monkeypox
Post Reports
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency over the weekend — leading to debate within the White House over whether the United States should do the same as case numbers continue to climb.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. |
| 0:05.8 | Over the weekend, the World Health Organization declared that monkeypox was a public health |
| 0:09.8 | emergency of international concern. |
| 0:12.3 | We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission |
| 0:19.0 | about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria in the international |
| 0:24.6 | health regulations. |
| 0:26.4 | That's the highest level warning. |
| 0:29.8 | That is the biggest alert it can flag and what it means is there is going to be more |
| 0:34.3 | international coordination moving forward on trying to tackle the monkeypox outbreak. |
| 0:41.3 | That is Dan Diamond. |
| 0:42.3 | He's a health policy reporter for the post and he says that the Biden administration |
| 0:47.0 | is now in a heated debate about whether they should also declare a public health emergency |
| 0:51.7 | here in the US. |
| 0:53.5 | It's not a given that when the World Health Organization says there's a global emergency |
| 0:57.9 | that the US needs to follow, but there's every expectation that a public health emergency |
| 1:02.8 | should be on the table at least for monkeypox given how rapidly it's spread here in the |
| 1:08.1 | States. |
| 1:11.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 1:16.7 | It's Tuesday, July 26. |
| 1:18.7 | Today, the race to contain monkeypox in the US and how this effort is being held up |
| 1:24.6 | by red tape and politics. |
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