Monkeypox outbreak needs to be taken more seriously, says Dr. Fauci.
"This is something we definitely need to take seriously. We don't know the scope and the potential of it yet, but we have to act like it will have the capability of spreading much more widely than it's spreading right now," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN Saturday.Former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned it may be too late to control and contain the virus."I think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed.
You'll have this as a sort of a fact of life, maybe spreading as a sexually transmitted disease, but also breaking out of those settings," he said.Demand for monkeypox vaccine rises with case counts, but supply remains lowThe former FDA commissioner compared the response to the monkeypox virus with the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the US is making"a lot of the same mistakes," citing a lack of testing early on and not enough vaccines distributed to the community.