Monkeypox casesare increasing in cities across the United States, including, including New York, but experts Is not equipped by the local health department to handle the large demands of testing.
This week, the Biden administration announced that thetest for the viruswill be scrambled and shipped to commercial laboratories to expand the test and speed up diagnosis. Wednesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, these labs will not be operational until July for monkeypox testing. With 67 labs in 48 states, bandwidth is only 8,000 tests per week nationwide.
"I've heard from many people working on gay health issues. They relayed multiple stories of people who tried to take the test but couldn't. I have friends and friends of friends. Dr. Jay Balma, an epidemiologist at Cornell University, told the post.
Balma, who helped Big Apple mitigate COVID and coordinate its vaccine deployment strategy, complained. I used Twitter with it.
"Incredibly @CDCgov Same # COVID19 mistake #monkeypox: 1 / Properly warned by events in Europe, 2 / Still underestimating transmission, 3 / Rarely happened due to gatekeeping test No, "he wrote. "The first rule of outbreak control is to overreact first ... or keep up with&."
Dean Brunberg, Head of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of California, Davis, monkeypox response is better than COVID-19 He believed he had, but said he was able to perform contact tracing and needed more tests to limit the spread.
"With contact tracing, if you find someone at risk, you can set the test threshold very low and educate people in a way that can limit transmission. Others, "Blumberg told The Post.
In New York City, the Department of Health and Mental Health can carry out only 20 tests a day, officials said. Authorities have detected 30 possible cases as of Thursday, exceeding 12 in the last two weeks, but authorities cannot say the number of New Yorkers who are unable to undergo the necessary tests for a confirmed diagnosis. ..
In major urban areas, there are only a handful of sites conducting tests, one in Philadelphia, where there are two confirmed cases, and 23 cases, including 19 in the last two cases. Only three have been reported to Chicago. For a few weeks, local officials said.
Monkeypox Anyone can be infected However, many cases have been found in gay men in the United States and Europe, and only those who meet strict criteria such as inadequate testing and lesions are tested. Despite being able to do this, health authorities are pushing to raise awareness in the community.
A New Yorker who spoke to the post on condition of anonymity spent a full week testing for a new virus and then had to wait three days before she heard a positive test result. He said he had to.
"Health providers were good, but they were constrained by what was written in the [CDC] guidelines," the patient told Post. "Testing guidelines are very limited. At some point, the possibility of cancer came to an unmanageable level. My , well, some cancers overnight. It was like I didn't expect it to appear in the place of. "
Initially, he had no lesions, but when a painful lesion appeared on Saturday, a major university in the city. He claimed that the emergency department doctor still refused to give him an examination. He was finally tested on Monday and the results will only come on Thursday, he said.
A spokesman for the Department of Health denied that the person showing the lesion or the rash was rejected from the test, but not the number of people seeking the test was rejected. did. Some city health departments refused to publish test data and asked the CDC for capacity questions.
The New York Department of Health has made theJYNNEOS vaccineunexpectedly available to adult men who have had sex with other men or "multiple anonymous sex partners" in the last two weeks. I made it. However, thewebsitethat booked reservations did not have a slot available and provided the vaccine after the vaccine news spread in Chelsea's only location-lined word-of-mouth.
According to a social media post, the wait time reached two hours and authorities had to reject them without a reservation.
According to a statement from the Health Department on Thursday, there were no reservations available until Monday.
"The demand we see today further demonstrates how aggressive the LGBTQ + community and all New Yorkers are in seeking health and healthcare," the statement said. I am saying.
"We want to make more appointments available in the near future. We will discuss with the CDC to find out how to get more doses and increase capacity throughout the city.
With post wire
