Experts blasted US President Joe Biden alleging that his slow response is putting the United States at risk of losing control of the Monkeypox outbreak.
Recently, experts have warned that the US could lose its control of the monkeypox outbreak, similar to the mistakes that have been made when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, experts blasted the Biden administration for the inadequate testing and a slow rollout of vaccines which led the virus to spread.
In a statement released by National Coalition of STD Directors executive director David Harvey, he revealed that “we have lagged [in] streamlining testing, making vaccines available, streamlining access to the best therapeutics,” and emphasized that the monkeypox outbreak has not been controlled, because “all three areas have been bureaucratic and slow.”
According to Harvey, this “outbreak is already out of control. So we have not contained it. Vaccines are not going to contain it at this point. Because we don’t have enough. Getting them into arms is an expensive and intense process.”
Experts also claimed that there’s no excuse when it comes to the Monkeypox because the strategies that have been used to reduce the spread of the virus are already well known and have been for some time, unlike COVID-19.
In addition, co-founder of the HIV treatment advocacy group Prep4All, James Krellenstein also blasted the Biden administration for not learning lessons from the mistakes that have been committed during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’ve been sort of screaming for a month about how bad the diagnostic situation is for monkeypox. And that really was a clear error, preventable.” Krellenstein said.
Infectious disease specialist and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News, Celine Gounder, also criticized Biden and said “we already had testing available. We already had vaccines available. We should have really been much more aggressive with testing … and I think this speaks to some of the bureaucracy of both FDA [Food and Drug Administration] and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].”
“Getting the commercial labs on board they could have done sooner. Getting academic medical centers to do testing, hospital labs to develop their own PCR tests. I mean, that’s not a very difficult thing to do.” She added.
