{"id":51196,"date":"2022-08-08T13:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51196"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T00:54:10","slug":"health-officials-walk-fine-line-as-monkeypox-swells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51196","title":{"rendered":"Health officials walk fine line as monkeypox swells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State and city\u00a0governments are walking a fine line as they move to confront the monkeypox outbreak, trying to spread awareness of the disease \u2014 which has thus far predominantly affected men who have sex with men \u2014 while avoiding stigmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tightrope you\u2019re trying to walk is making sure that people don\u2019t see it as just a gay men\u2019s illness, but not alarming people so that they use up resources that need to go to the people who need the most right now,\u201d Will Goedel, a professor at the Brown University School of Public Health, told The Hill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first American cases of monkeypox were detected in Massachusetts\u00a0nearly three months ago, and, on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary\u00a0Xavier Becerra\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661167.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS8zNTg4MjMxLXdoaXRlLWhvdXNlLWRlY2xhcmVzLW1vbmtleXBveC1hLXB1YmxpYy1oZWFsdGgtZW1lcmdlbmN5Lz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBb8ce4d09\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661167.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS8zNTg4MjMxLXdoaXRlLWhvdXNlLWRlY2xhcmVzLW1vbmtleXBveC1hLXB1YmxpYy1oZWFsdGgtZW1lcmdlbmN5Lz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBb8ce4d09\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660083133045000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Rk_WXcFd1zln1lnVxYuC5\">officially declared monkeypox<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661167.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS8zNTg4MjMxLXdoaXRlLWhvdXNlLWRlY2xhcmVzLW1vbmtleXBveC1hLXB1YmxpYy1oZWFsdGgtZW1lcmdlbmN5Lz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aCb8ce4d09\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661167.26112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS8zNTg4MjMxLXdoaXRlLWhvdXNlLWRlY2xhcmVzLW1vbmtleXBveC1hLXB1YmxpYy1oZWFsdGgtZW1lcmdlbmN5Lz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aCb8ce4d09\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660083133045000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1b3jByp06aQjtQ5fqczDBC\">\u00a0to be a public health emergency<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The number of total monkeypox cases in the U.S. has reached more than 7,000, with concentrations in the states of New York, California and Illinois. Each of these states has issued their own emergency orders to distribute resources such as vaccines and testing more efficiently amid growing demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>San Francisco public health officer Susan Philip told The Hill in an interview that it is crucial to bring awareness and education to vulnerable communities most at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important for us not to stigmatize any groups so that they feel comfortable getting information from us or from community partners, that they understand how they can access services, including vaccine and treatment and testing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State and city\u00a0governments are walking a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51197,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51196\/revisions\/51197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}