At a congressional hearing with the nation's leading public health officials, senators on both sides of the aisle criticized the Biden administration's monkeypox response.
September 14, 2022, 9:51 PMSen. Rand Paul questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing about the federal response to monkeypox, on Capitol Hill, Sept. 14, 2022.
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, the committee chair, also had criticism of the overall monkeypox response -- though she tempered hers with the news that access to vaccines, testing and therapeutics has increasedSen. Rand Paul questions Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing about the federal response to monkeypox, on Capitol Hill, Sept. 14, 2022.
"Over the last several weeks we've been pleased to see a decline in the growth of new cases here and abroad, though there are areas in the United States where the rate of rise in new cases is still increasing. We approach this news with cautious optimism, recognizing that we must continue to aggressively respond using our entire toolkit, including vaccination, testing and education about risk, to inform behavior change," she said.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine an update to the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 16, 2022.On vaccines, Burr pushed the officials on why vaccination rates aren't higher -- arguing that a lack of information on the new intradermal vaccination method, which is allowing the U.S. to increase its vaccine supply by up to fivefold, could be turning people off of the shots.
"What we need to do now is do those in smaller scale, and we're actively doing that scale up ... So rather than these big events, we need to meet people where they are with community-based organizations, trusted messengers," she said. For example, "for monkeypox specifically, I can tell you that I don't know the total number of people hospitalized with monkeypox," Walensky said.
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