The Real Risks of Monkeypox
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
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Summary
Doctors feel confident they can deal with the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. But, once again, our public health agencies have been stumbling to get a hold of this virus before it spreads widely.
Guests: Matt Ford and Shannon Palus, Slate senior editor.
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| 0:00.0 | caution. The ultimate spicy meatball from Domino's is hot. Just not stupid hot. It won't earn |
| 0:05.2 | you mythical status or get you a nickname like Mad Dog or Dragon's Breath. It's hot. Good hot. |
| 0:10.8 | The kind of hot that boosts taste nothing else. The ultimate spicy meatball with Siracha |
| 0:15.2 | Drizzle from Domino's, it will get you fired up. Subject to availability. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey everyone, quick heads up. There is some cursing about monkey parks ahead. |
| 0:30.4 | You do not want to get the call Matt Ford got a few weeks back. |
| 0:34.6 | So Friday, June 17th, I got a call from a friend I had been hanging out with the weekend |
| 0:38.4 | prior and basically all at once I learned he was pretty sure he had monkey pox. |
| 0:45.2 | His partner and multiple of his friends thought they had monkey pox. |
| 0:49.6 | They were just waiting on the Department of Public Health in L.A. to confirm that |
| 0:54.9 | and I was writing a time frame of when I would have been exposed. |
| 1:00.7 | So on that call slash like right after it, I checked myself and noticed some bumps |
| 1:06.0 | that I hadn't seen before. So in a span of like 15 minutes, I went from like living my normal |
| 1:12.1 | life to oh shit, I have monkey pox. Next came the flu-like symptoms, the fever, sore throat. |
| 1:20.3 | It was like okay, I definitely have some kind of viral thing going on. And then that Monday, |
| 1:24.5 | I went in, had a physical exam. My doctor was like, you know, it was like I was ET. |
| 1:30.0 | It was like a patient zero like quarantine zone going on. |
| 1:34.9 | Was it like a full face shield and everything? |
| 1:36.9 | Oh yeah, it was like full PPE. Like I think they had like the computer keyboard covered. |
| 1:42.9 | It was kind of bizarre. |
| 1:45.5 | One of the weird things about getting hit with an emerging infectious disease, |
| 1:49.3 | Matt quickly realized is that no one knows exactly what to do with you. |
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