San Francisco Mayor London Breed will declare monkeypox a local public health emergency on Aug. 1, the mayor announced on Thursday.
The city's Board of Supervisors must adopt it within a week. The declaration would strengthen San Francisco's response to the rising number of cases.
Breed wrote the legal document will "mobilize city resources, accelerate emergency planning, streamline staffing, coordinate agencies across the city, allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments and raise awareness throughout San Francisco about how everyone can stop the spread of monkeypox in our community."
The mayor emphasized that the emergency declaration focuses solely on attaining the resources to respond to the virus. The city is not implementing behavior restrictions, as they did during COVID. it a Global Health Emergency last Saturday.
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