CDC Will Make Monkeypox A Nationally Notifiable Condition Requiring States To Share Their Surveillance Data

The following report is from Politico:

The new designation will take effect Aug. 1, according to a letter the agency sent to state epidemiologists on Monday.

The move, which comes more than two months after monkeypox began spreading in the United States, offers the CDC a better understanding of how far and fast the virus is spreading. Every state will have to report a confirmed or probable monkeypox case within 24 hours, the letter states.

Nearly 3,600 cases have been reported in the U.S., according to the CDC, including 439 on Monday, the highest one-day total to date. Yet state health departments, which share information on positive cases, suspected cases and the number of people treated, are not required to provide the federal government with standardized data, leaving the CDC with a patchwork understanding of the virus’ spread.

Making the condition nationally notifiable positions public health to continuing to monitor and respond to monkeypox after the current outbreak recedes.

CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said Wednesday

Declaring monkeypox a nationally notifiable condition, however, offers health officials only a glimpse. This would not let them know, for example, how many people have been vaccinated.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told CNN this week that the agency could not require states to provide data.

We need the states … to feed us data. Most of the time we can’t require states to do this. On Covid, until we declared a public health emergency and started to enact these emergency authorities, we could not require states to provide us this data.

Becerra said

The administration is still debating whether to declare monkeypox a public health emergency and what ways the response could be enhanced if it did. But the administration does not need to declare monkeypox a public health emergency to make it a nationally notifiable condition, the senior administration official said.

In another sign of the administration’s heightened response, the FDA on Wednesday announced it had cleared an additional facility in Denmark to finish manufacturing monkeypox vaccines, allowing more doses to be distributed and administered.

Last week, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency. WHO officials on Tuesday warned of increasing transmission, urging people in communities where case numbers are high to take precaution by avoiding sexual intercourse.

WHO Officially Declares Monkeypox Public Health Emergency of International Concern

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

While I do not think monkeypox is “the one,” yet, though I could be wrong, the playbook being followed is nearly identical to that of the early days of the Covid sham in 2020, as detailed in other WP reports.

Even so, do not fret yourself and get your undies in a bunch, but also watch and be observant, as you should have been preparing for this situation. Obviously this move by the CDC does not mean that the U.S. is going to go under a full-blown lockdown, but it certainly is going that direction.

But if lockdowns, restrictions, and persecution comes, then rejoice in it:

[12] For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. [13] And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? [14] But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; [15] But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: [16] Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. [17] For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Peter 3:12-17

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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