The number of cases has been growing but the pace seems to have slowed in recent weeks. The monkeypox virus is still circulating, he said. However, it does not look like it is exponentially increasing like it had before.
The states dashboard shows how monkeypox has spread in Colorado. The first two cases were found in the state in May. The numbers grew from there to six in June, 66 in July, 157 in August and 51 so far in September. That state has recorded a total of 282 to date.
Based on the data being collected both here in Colorado and nationally, we are seeing that the greatest risk at this time is among, gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men, said state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy last month. That is primarily, here in Colorado, in the Denver metro area, but we have seen cases outside of the metro area as well.
Monkeypox is a virus in the orthopox family of viruses, according to the states website. It is rare, but can be serious.
It can spread from person to person when someone who has monkeypox has close skin-to-skin contact with someone else. Close contact can mean physical contact with sores, bumps, or lesions of someone who has monkeypox. That contact includes sex. The virus can also spread through touching the bed linens or clothing of an infected person and can also live on other surfaces for some time.
Recent cases in the United States have been infected through person-to-person contact. Brief interactions without physical contact are unlikely to result in getting the virus.
Monkeypox has recently been spreading elsewhere, like in Canada, Europe, and Australia. It is endemic in central and west Africa.
Recent data suggest people who have recently traveled to a country where monkeypox has been reported or men who have sex with other men are at heightened risk.
The type of monkeypox spreading in the United States is rarely deadly and has a fatality rate of less than 1 percent, according to the states website.
In fact, in most cases, it will resolve on its own. Symptoms of the virus may begin with flu-like symptoms that can include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, and exhaustion. Typically, a rash or skin bumps develop within one to three days after the onset of fever, often beginning on the face then spreading to other parts of the body.
Data: CDC, U.S. Census; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals
While the supply and distribution of monkeypox vaccine has ramped up since June, there's "substantial variation" in states' criteria for who is eligible, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows.
Why it matters: Eligibility requirements might be limiting who is getting shots, including health care workers who could get exposed on the job or people with HIV.
Details: The vast majority of states vaccines for people who are known close contacts of a confirmed case or have a presumed exposure to someone who has tested positive for the virus, the analysis found.
By the numbers: The analysis covered all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five cities: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.
The bottom line: More than 540,000 doses have been administered, but with millions of people still at-risk and Jynneos being a two-dose vaccine, there is a lot of work still to be done.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) San Francisco is set to receive an additional 10,000 doses of monkeypox (MPX) vaccine this week, according to a post from San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH).
SFDPH says that first and second doses of MPX vaccine will be available at pop-up vaccination sites, neighborhood vaccine clinics, and the Folsom and Castro Street Fairs. MPX vaccine eligibility is also expanding from Sept. 18 through Oct. 2 to include people who are traveling to the Bay Area for visits.
The extra doses will assist in SFDPHs efforts to reach the people who are being impacted by MPX most, particularly the Black and Latino communities. Second doses will also be available for anyone who received their first dose of MPX vaccine more than 28 days ago.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital will be offering an MPX vaccine clinic at 1001 Potrero Avenue, building 30, on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The clinic will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) will be offering monkeypox (MPX) vaccine access to people with a higher risk of exposure at two events on Saturday, September 17, 2022.
DPH and Beebe Healthcare are partnering with AIDS Delaware and the Delaware HIV Consortium to offer MPX vaccinations at the AIDS Walk events atBrandywine State Park in Wilmington and in Grove Park in Rehoboth Beach.
DPH said those considered at higher risk includeanyone treated for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the last six months,someone who falls into any of the identified high-risk categories who are also experiencing homelessness or incarceration, or individuals traveling to an area with community spread of MPX cases such as New York and Texas.
Camille Moreno Gorrin from DPH said currently Delaware has 33 documented cases of monkeypox, 22 in New Castle County, nine in Sussex County, and two in Kent County.
"We get an average of one or two cases each week and that has been consistent throughout this outbreak," saidMoreno Gorrin. "The vast number of cases have been almost 100-percent male, and we actually received our first female case this week."
Pre-registration to receive the vaccine at the Brandywine State Park location with DPH canbe done bycalling the monkeypox hotline at 1.866.408.1899. Pre-registration is not needed at the Grove Park event.
Post-exposure vaccination started on July 16 in Portugal,with a total of 437 vaccinated until September 12, 2022, with the DGSdiscussing and reviewing the standard Approach to cases of human infectionwith Monkeypox virus, framework for the administration of reduced doses,according to new guidelines from the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
In the standard the DGS states that the conditions foroperationalization/availability and equity in the management of the limitedstock of vaccines for the approach to preventive vaccination and the respectivedefinition of eligibility criteria are also being updated, in addition to post-exposurevaccination.
The EMA considers that the vaccine authorised in theEuropean Union against Monkeypox can also be administered as an intradermalinjection at a lower dose, allowing the existing doses to be multiplied by fivetimes.
Until now, the vaccine has only been administered to peoplewho have had risky contacts and the objective is to preventively vaccinateother groups that will be defined by the DGS and that may include sex workers,people who undergo PREP - Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to HIV and healthprofessionals.
With regard to the clinical approach of pregnant womenconfirmed with Monkeypox infection, the DGS states that they must be followedup in a high-risk obstetrics consultation at a differentiated perinatal supporthospital, which involves specific procedures for pregnancy surveillance andfetal monitoring.
A health worker administering vaccine for Corona virus to a school girl during a campaign to vaccinate 5 o 12 years children t F-9 Park in the Federal Capital Associated Press of Pakistan
London: BA.4.6, A new form of Corona is a new form of Omicron. It is spreading rapidly in America. Now it is spreading in UK too. The UK Health Protection Agency mentioned in a new briefing document on Covid variants that the BA.4.6 variant was responsible for 3.3 per cent of cases in the week starting August 14. But a recent investigation found that BA.4.6 was responsible for 9 percent of UK Covid cases. Thus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the BA.4.6 variant accounts for more than 9 percent of cases in the United States. Apart from this, this variant has also been confirmed in other countries of the world. So now India should worry about this variant. Lets look at the information available so farA new variant spread around the world
BA.4.6 is a variant of Omicrons BA.4 variant. The BA.4 was first detected in South Africa in January 2022 and has since spread worldwide with the BA.5 variant. It is not clear how BA.4.6 spread, but it is possible that it could be a recombinant variant. Recombination occurs when two different types of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infect the same person at the same time.
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While BA.4.6 will be similar to BA.4 in many ways, it mutates the spike protein, a protein on the surface of the virus that allows it to enter our cells. This mutation, R346T, has been found in other variants and protects the virus from a persons immune system. In other words, it helps the virus avoid antibodies made from vaccination and previous infection.
Fortunately Omicron was not very destructive, but subtypes of Omicron spread very quickly. BA.4.6 reduces the immune system of the body. According to the UKHSA report, BA.4.6 spread much faster than BA.5 in its initial period. According to a report from Oxford University then, people who took a dose of Pfizer to protect against Covid, did not affect their antibodies to BA.4.6. It is a matter of concern. However, booster doses can be quite successful in avoiding BA.4.6. The details of this new variant are not yet fully known, for now we can only rely on the booster dose.
Also Read: Know Features of Omicrons Sub Variant BA.2.75
BA.4.6 and other new variants to become it is a matter of concern. Their new appearance shows that the virus is still with us and is trying to enter our body in new ways by breaking the immunity provided by vaccination. But vaccination provides good protection against serious illness. It is still the best weapon to fight against Corona. The recent approval of bivalent boosters is good news for people. In addition, developing multi-component coronavirus vaccines that target multiple variants may provide more durable protection.
A recent study found that a multicomponent corona virus vaccine administered nasally proved to be more effective against the original form of Covid and its two other forms. New variants, including BA.4.6, are being closely monitored, as they may cause the next wave of the Covid pandemic. The public should be vigilant and follow the Covid rules in any public place to prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus.
Published by:Vivek Chudasma
First published: September 14, 2022, 23:06 IST
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Attorneys for a group of former Maine health care workers who sued the state over its vaccine requirements last summer are asking a panel of judges in Boston to revive their case.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Jon Levy dismissed the groups lawsuit, which argued they have a religious right to refuse the vaccine overtheir belief that fetal stem cells from abortions were used to develop it. They also argued that the state mandate was discriminatory by allowing for medical exemptions, but not religious ones.
Levy ultimately disagreed.
Exempting individuals whose health will be threatened if they receive a COVID-19 vaccine is an essential, constituent part of a reasoned public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It does not express or suggest a discriminatory bias against religion, Levy wrote in his order on Aug. 18.
Attorneys have a month to file a brief to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, outlining their reasons for an appeal.
The plaintiffs worked for MaineHealth, Genesis Healthcare, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and MaineGeneral Health. All are named as defendants in the complaint, along with Gov. Janet Mills, Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah and Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
Nine plaintiffs originally sued in August 2021, all anonymously.
The Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and Sun Journal filed a motion last November challenging the groups right to anonymity. The newspapers argued that the plaintiffs alleged fear of harm no longer outweighs the publics interest in open legal proceedings.
Both Levy and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ordering the group to file a new complaint that included their names in July.
Plaintiffs named in the dismissal document are Alicia Lowe, formerly an employee of MaineHealth; Debra Chalmers and Garth Berenyi, formerly of Genesis Health; Jennifer Barbalias, Natalie Salavarria and Adam Jones, formerly of Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center; and Nicole Giroux, formerly of MaineGeneral Health.
They are represented by Maine attorney Steve Whiting, and lawyers from Liberty Counsel, a conservative, religious law firm based in Florida that has participated in several lawsuits against Maine and other states over COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. Theyve also opposed safe and legal access to abortions and same-sex marriage, leading the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify the firm as a hate group.
Federal judges at every level the U.S. District Court,the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston andthe U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Maines COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect while the courts considered the merits of the lawsuit.
The mandate took effect in October, and major health care providers reported that most workers decided to get their shots.
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The city Department of Education has axed another 850 teachers and classroom aides bringing the total to nearly 2,000 school employees fired for failure to comply with a vaccine mandate increasingly struck down in court.
About 1,300 DOE employees who took a years unpaid leave with benefits agreed to show proof of COVID vaccination by Sept. 5 or be deemed to have voluntarily resigned.
Of those staffers, 450 got a shot by the deadline and are returning to their prior schools or work locations, DOE officials told The Post. They include some 225 teachers and 135 paraprofessionals.
The850 let go makes roughly 1,950 DOE staffers terminated since the vaccine mandate took effect on Oct. 29, 2021.
Rachelle Garcia, an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn for 15 years and mother of two, worked fully in person during the pandemic and never got sick, she said.
But she refused to get vaccinated, finally taking leave after the DOE denied her requests for a religious exemption.
I really put my eggs in one basket, hoping and praying that at the last minute our mayor would turn everything around in time for me togo back to work, she said.
Mayor Adams never lifted the vaccine mandate, while other cities and states are dropping such requirements due to relaxed CDC guidelines.
Im angry, Im hurt, to be cast aside like I was nothing. Because I couldnt give a proper goodbye to my students, other teachers told me they kept asking, When is Ms. Garcia coming back? That made me cry so much.
She is now applying for jobs on Long Island.
In all, NYC has fired more than 2,600 municipal workers not fully vaccinated, according to City Hall tallies.
But last week, a Manhattan judge ruled that an unvaccinated NYPD officer, one of the dozens terminated, cant be fired because the city gave no explanation of why it rejected his religious exemption request.
Additional reporting by Cayla Bamberger
Express News Service
From Mahatma Gandhis views on vaccination to the use of children as a source of live vaccines, Dr Sajjan Singh Yadavs new book maps several such noteworthy moments in Indias journey to emerge as a global vaccine superpower of modern times.
Although the subject of the book is academic in nature, it is far from being a dry collection of facts and figures. The research is in-depth and the narrative is well structured and novelesque. Anecdotes complement historical events, and the angst and panic that has ravaged the country during outbreaks of epidemics such as smallpox, plague, cholera, polio and Covid-19 come through eloquently. So does the sense of triumph in making breakthroughs to find cures for these diseases, making the book read-worthy also for people beyond scholars and policymakers in the field.
Dr Yadav takes the readers back to the beginnings of the coronavirus pandemicto a tense WHO office in China on New Years Eve in 2019 after the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission detected a cluster of cases of pneumonia of an unknown naturepainting, retrospectively, a terrifying picture of a world immersed in celebrations, unaware of what awaited them.
The tale of the struggle of the researchers to trace the route of the coronavirus into the human community is told with gripping fervour. From the elusive search for patient zero to the futile efforts and impediments faced by scientists to trace the actual mode of transmission of the virus, Dr Yadav captures the various crests and troughs of Indias war against Covid-19 in a captivating manner. He explores and enlists the various theories and conspiracies around the possible ways the virus invaded the human population, including the assumption that the virus could have escaped from a laboratory or that it was part of a more sinister ploy.
Stories from a pre-vaccine India going back to the seventh century, when people practised various ways of acquiring immunity, make for an interesting read. For instance, oral consumption of snake venom was considered an effective method to deal with snake bites, a toxin immunity method that the western world discovered many centuries later.
Also discussed at length is Indias vaccine outreach programmeVaccine Maitrithat established the credibility of India as a reliable vaccine producer. Dr Yadav captures how Vaccine Maitri resulted in the western world beginning to see India as a counterbalancing force to the growing influence of China in the region and the emergence of new geopolitics. Social impediments faced during inoculation drives in India, including administrative complacency and vaccine hesitancy among people are addressed.
With peoples renewed awareness about vaccines in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the book is certainly a topical read, and the authors background as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare only helps.
