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New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared an emergency late on Friday over the continued spread of monkeypox.
“I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront the monkeypox outbreak,” Hochul tweeted.
I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront the monkeypox outbreak.
This Executive Order enables us to respond more swiftly, and allows health care professionals to take additional steps that will help get more New Yorkers vaccinated.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) July 30, 2022
She added that more than one in four monkeypox cases in the U.S. are in New York. As of July 29, New York state had a total of 1,383 confirmed orthopoxvirus/monkeypox cases, according to the New York Department of Health’s website.
Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the World Health Organization’s monkeypox expert, reported that at least 95% of those diagnosed with monkeypox in this international outbreak are men who have sex with other men. The New England Journal of Medicine reported the same findings.
Billy Binion, an associate editor at Reason, pointed out the liberal media’s hypocrisy in reporting on monkeypox, as compared to COVID-19.
A few months ago, we were told it was virtuous to mock folks who died of COVID, esp if they were vaccine-hesitant.
With Monkeypox, we’re told it’s too far to ask gay men to temporarily desist from promiscuous sex. It says a lot about how we filter everything through identity. pic.twitter.com/3CZzbH7D7Q
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) July 29, 2022
Earlier on Friday, Brazil and Spain reported the first monkeypox-related deaths outside Africa.
The World Health Organization last week declared a global health emergency, its highest level of alert, over the monkeypox outbreak.
Copyright 2022 Thomson/Reuters. Additional reporting by Jacob Fuller, FISM News.