Ashish Jha, coronavirus response coordinator, defends Biden administration response but California Democrat wants answers
Speaking a day after the World Health Organization director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the rapidly spreading outbreak was a global health emergency, Schiff said he wanted “to light a fire under the administration”.” – is designed to trigger a coordinated international response and could unlock funding to collaborate on sharing vaccines and treatments.
Monkeypox spreads via close contact and tends to cause flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin lesions., Sebastian Köhn, who contracted monkeypox in New York City, said: “I developed lesions literally everywhere. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Tedros said: “Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.”Jha said: “In the US right now, we’re looking at public health emergency as something [the health department] might … invoke but it really depends on what does that allow us to do.
Jha said: “What I would acknowledge is that when we started two months ago, we had a limited supply of vaccines. We have obtained more than any other country, probably more than every other country combined. We have acted swiftly. We’ve gotten 800,000 doses from Denmark … just in the last week.
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