Thread by @DrEricDing

⚠️Exponential surge to almost 13,000 #monkeypox cases globally—with no signs of slowing—on track to hit 100,000 in August 👀(per earlier forecast). The next @WHO meeting to discuss making a public health emergency declaration is… in 4 days on July 21. Pandemic yet? Heck yeah. 🧵

2) meanwhile, #monkeypox response in many countries like the US has been vastly inadequate. Testing had been slow— and with it—slow mitigations and vaccination rollout.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1547659369738686464

3) there are those who can see a train wreck incoming… and those who cannot. Don’t be the latter.

https://twitter.com/youarelobbylud/status/1548967690940731392

4) this is why we must demand the @WHO to acknowledge at minimum the public health emergency that #monkeypox represents— and declare a pandemic asap. Here is our petition letter oped in @washingtonpost for the WHO to do so. See thread 🧵 below.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1545127543103258625

5) I’ve been hammering leaders to focus on containing #monkeypox for months. We are frogs being boiled to death in a pot silently by the silence and slow actions of world leaders!! My short interview with @VincentRK

https://twitter.com/vincentrk/status/1549088951994322944

6) we are so unprepared for #monkeypox that it’s not even funny. Listen to one woman trying to get testing (from 2 weeks ago). It’s a complex nightmare.

7) in absence of global leadership, this is what happens “we trust everyone to self-manage their own risk” to contain #monkeypox / or #COVID—

8) there are 4 categories of “close contact” as defined by EU’s CDC equivalent agency—

📌Sexual partner of any kind
📌Household or cohabitation
📌Certain healthcare workers with close contact
📌Others such as seating proximity for long periods on a plane/train/sharing utensils.

https://twitter.com/alinouriphd/status/1549160871787634688

9) Furthermore, the US @CDCgov is telling hospitals to mask against #monkeypox but they don’t mention masks to general public recently. This is a grave mistake and huge miscommunication with pandemic consequences! C’mon @CDCDirector

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1541461504310263808