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   > Very happy to see Swallwell fail after his immature ignorant behavior with a   
   Chink whore spy.   
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   > Monkey Pox, right on time to give Democrats an excuse to cheat in the next   
   election.   
      
   Several days ago, New York City’s health commissioner made an   
   urgent plea to the World Health Organization: change the name of   
   monkeypox. “NYC joins many public health experts and community   
   leaders who have expressed their serious concern about   
   continuing to exclusively use the term ‘monkeypox’ given the   
   stigma it may engender, and the painful and racist history   
   within which terminology like this is rooted for communities of   
   color,” Ashwin Vasan wrote to the WHO. “‘Monkeypox’ is a   
   misnomer, as the virus does not originate in monkeys and was   
   only classified as such due to an infection seen in research   
   primates.”   
      
   It was an understandable letter: Monkeypox is one of those names   
   that is better left in the dustbin of history. But it was   
   emblematic of a greater problem for the city’s Health   
   Department, which finds itself straining over an issue most New   
   Yorkers don’t care about—what to call a dreaded disease. Most   
   city residents want it contained and desire, if in need, a   
   readily available vaccine. Names mean little to them.   
      
   It’s here where both NYC DOH and federal health officials are   
   failing to deliver. Vasan shouldn’t be wasting time or energy   
   trying to rename monkeypox. Those sick with the virus have other   
   concerns, as should he. The spread of monkeypox in New York has   
   a few disturbing echoes of Covid, though the former is not   
   nearly as prevalent or as deadly. New York now accounts for   
   about one-third of the almost 3,000 monkeypox infections   
   nationwide. Monkeypox has been mostly spreading among gay and   
   bisexual men but can affect anyone. Transmission is more   
   difficult than Covid; close bodily contact or the sharing of   
   bodily fluids is required to infect someone else.   
      
   Late last week Gov. Kathy Hochul finally declared a state of   
   emergency over monkeypox, which will allow paramedics and EMTs   
   to administer vaccines, permit pharmacies to request vaccines,   
   and require anyone who administers a vaccine to report it to the   
   New York State Health Department. The City Health Department   
   quickly followed suit with its own emergency declaration. The   
   additional reporting requirements should allow the city and   
   state to get more vaccines, since health officials will know   
   exactly when they’re running low. So far, it’s the Biden   
   administration that has failed mostly severely when it comes to   
   distributing vaccines: some 300,000 doses of a ready-to-use   
   American-owned vaccine sat in a facility in Denmark for weeks   
   before being shipped to the U.S. They were flown over piecemeal   
   as the virus spread.   
      
   No level of government—the city, the state or the feds—has   
   approached monkeypox testing or vaccine administering with the   
   seriousness required to stamp out the threat. City residents   
   have struggled to book appointments through online vaccine   
   portals. The rush to secure appointments is a sad callback to   
   the earliest days of the Covid vaccine rollout, when   
   appointments were frustratingly scarce. The hope now is the   
   state of emergency, coupled with more attention from the federal   
   government, will make a difference.   
      
   After failing miserably to contain Covid and save lives in early   
   2020, New York has a chance to do much better with monkeypox. So   
   far, city, state and federal officials are all lucky the virus   
   is not nearly as transmissible. They’ve been granted more time   
   that they now must stop squandering. If New York fails,   
   monkeypox can become endemic, which would be a public health   
   catastrophe. We can’t afford that now.   
      
   Ross Barkan is a journalist and author in New York City.   
      
   https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics/nyc-health-commissioner-   
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