US President Joe Biden today appointed top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to coordinate the government’s response to monkeypox in the United States.
The United States plans to boost vaccination efforts to slow the spread of a monkeypox outbreak that has infected more than 5,800 Americans.
Yesterday, Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a monkey pox emergency.
Biden appointed Robert Fenton as White House coordinator to lead the monkeypox response and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as deputy coordinator.
Fenton is the FEMA regional administrator who led the mass vaccination effort for COVID-19 in February 2021. Daskalakis is the director of the HIV prevention division at the CDC.
The two men will coordinate “strategy and operations to combat the current monkeypox outbreak, including equitably increasing the availability of testing, vaccinations and treatments,” the White House said.
The first case of monkeypox in the United States was confirmed in Massachusetts on May 20, with the first case in California, in a person who had traveled abroad, confirmed five days later.
Monkeypox, transmitted through close physical contact, tends to cause flu-like symptoms and purulent skin lesions, although it is rarely fatal.
Source: Capital
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