It's hard not to feel a sense of dread about monkeypox.

The U.S. has declared a public health emergency to deal with outbreaks.

The World Health Organization had already said it was a global emergency, but reality check.

This is not March 2020.

Monkeypox is generally not as deadly as COVID, though the pain can be debilitating.

And this is not a new disease.

There is a vaccine.

It was originally developed for smallpox, but it works.

The bad news, it's hard to get.

In many big U.S. cities, finding the two coveted doses is a struggle.

A line stretching city block after block, hundreds waited hoping to get a dose of the monkeypox

vaccine.

San Francisco is trying to keep up with a low supply met with very high demand.

A lot of things went wrong here.

The U.S. previously let millions of doses in the National Stockpile expire.

They also bought vaccine in bulk, but must wait months for those doses to actually be bottled.

So now the U.S. isn't expected to get an additional shipment until October.

But consider us lucky.

The entire continent of Africa, where this wave of monkeypox began and has existed for

years, doesn't have a single dose.

There's a sense of deja vu, right?

It sounds like, you know, here we go again.

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