We still don’t know if monkeypox will be the next pandemic, but we’re already fucking it up like we did with COVID.

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Beth Skwarecki

Yesterday 4:30PM

https://lifehacker.com/we-are-not-ready-for-monkeypox-1849035126

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Monkeypox is here, and it’sspreading. The couple of dozen cases in a few countries thatwe told you about last monthare now up to over a thousand cases worldwide, with 35 reported in the United States. But the U.S. almost certainly has more cases than the statistics suggest, and there is reason to suspect that we’re already fucking up the response to the epidemic in some ways that will feel uncomfortably familiar.

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