{"id":1583828,"date":"2022-08-02T06:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583828"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:05:00","slug":"biden-names-fema-cdc-officials-to-lead-monkeypox-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-names-fema-cdc-officials-to-lead-monkeypox-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Names FEMA, CDC Officials to Lead Monkeypox Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-names-fema-cdc-officials-to-lead-monkeypox-response%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1583828&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> on Tuesday appointed senior officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cdc\">CDC<\/a>) to coordinate the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-monkeypox\">monkeypox<\/a> outbreak response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/08\/02\/president-biden-announces-team-to-lead-monkeypox-response\/\">The White House said<\/a> FEMA\u2019s\u00a0Robert Fenton and the CDC\u2019s\u00a0Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as his deputy will\u00a0coordinate strategies and operations to \u201ccombat the current monkeypox outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will include working to resolve vaccine supply and demand problems by \u201cequitably increasing the availability of tests, vaccinations, and treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fenton helped lead FEMA\u2019s mass vaccination effort for COVID-19. Daskalakis runs the CDC\u2019s HIV prevention division, is an expert in LGBT issues, and helped lead New York City\u2019s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>Monkeypox case numbers in the United States are currently over 5,800 since the first case emerged in May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1325751258-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Dr. Demetre Daskalakis speaks at the press conference for New York City Pride on June 27, 2021. (John Lamparski\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-anthony-fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>, the White House\u2019s medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the pairing of Fenton and\u00a0Daskalakis \u201cis really a good combination,\u201d The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally think we\u2019re dealing with a really serious issue here,\u201d Fauci said, referring to the outbreak overall.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials have emphasized that monkeypox can infect anyone and is not typically considered a sexually transmitted disease, but that is largely how it\u2019s spreading.<\/p>\n<p>The virus can also pass on through\u00a0contaminated bedding, towels, and clothing. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/peer-reviewed-study-finds-monkeypox-primarily-transmitted-sexually-by-men_4616663.html\">major peer-reviewed study<\/a> has found that the current outbreak is primarily being driven by the sexual activity of gay and bisexual men.<\/p>\n<p>This might not always be the case, however, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/should-not-expect-monkeypox-to-stay-within-lgbt-population-senior-who-officials-warns_4621757.html\">senior World Health Organization (WHO) official warning<\/a> that \u201cwe should not expect that to remain such.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Outreach to LGBT Community <\/p>\n<p>Besides coming to a better scientific understanding of the current monkeypox outbreak, Fauci said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Tuesday appointed senior officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to coordinate the country\u2019s monkeypox outbreak response. The White House said FEMA\u2019s\u00a0Robert Fenton and the CDC\u2019s\u00a0Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as his deputy will\u00a0coordinate strategies and operations to \u201ccombat the current monkeypox outbreak.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}