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  6/29/2022 Biden Admin To Deploy 1.6 Million Doses Of Monkeypox Vaccines In "Enhanced" Strategy https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/biden-admin-deploy-16-million-doses-monkeypox-vaccines-enhanced-strategy 6/28/2022 CDC activates Emergency Operations Center for monkeypox The activation of the EOC "allows the agency to further increase operational support for the response to meet the outbreak's evolving challenges," the agency said in a news release. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/health/cdc-eoc-monkeypox/index.html 6/25/2022 Monkeypox may have undergone 'accelerated evolution,' scientists say The virus is mutating up to 12 times faster than expected. The monkeypox virus has mutated at a far faster rate than would normally be expected and likely underwent a period of "accelerated evolution,"a new study suggests. https://www.livescience.com/monkeypox-mutating-fast 6/23/2022 NYC Launches Monkeypox Shots — But Walk-in Demand Overwhel...

 

  6/15/2022 CDC issues new guidance on monkeypox symptoms as U.S. cases balloon https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-guidance-monkeypox-symptoms-us-cases-rcna33803 6/14/2022 WHO to convene emergency committee on monkeypox: ‘It’s now clear there is an unusual situation’ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/convene-emergency-committee-monkeypox-now-141535721.html Montreal is epicentre of monkeypox outbreak in North America with 126 cases https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/monkeypox-cases-climb-to-132-in-quebec-thousands-vaccinated 6/13/2022 Monkeypox Transmission Has Changed and Scientists Don't Know Why Brittany L. Kmush, an associate professor at the Department of Public Health at Syracuse University, told Newsweek that although "typically, monkeypox is not thought of as an airborne virus," its mode of transmission may have changed and subsequently, caused this outbreak. https://www.newsweek.com/monkeypox-transmission-has-changed-scientists-don...

  It's been two years since my last posting here. Two years ago, we were in the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Hopefully, we aren't at the beginning of another pandemic. Here’s a summary of monkeypox related news up to this date. NOTE: Read/watch everything with a grain of salt. June 10, 2022 U.S. Monkeypox Cases Double as Spread Continues Through Close Contact, CDC Says https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-monkeypox-cases-double-as-spread-continues-through-close-contact-cdc-says-11654886200 Diseases suppressed during Covid are coming back in new and peculiar ways Influenza, Respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, tuberculosis and monkeypox are among a number of viruses to have spiked and exhibited strange behaviors in recent months. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/flu-hepatitis-monkeypox-diseases-suppressed-during-covid-are-back.html US buys more monkeypox vaccine as global case count grows The U.S. government has 72,000 Jynneos doses, and will get 300...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 212 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the USA are  1,408,636. COVID-19 deaths in the USA are 83,425. US grocery costs jump the most in 46 years, led by rising prices for meat and eggs The Labor Department reported Tuesday that prices U.S. consumers paid for groceries jumped 2.6% in April, the largest one-month pop since February 1974. The price of the meats, poultry, fish and eggs category rose 4.3%, fruits and vegetables climbed 1.5%, and cereals and bakery products advanced 2.9%. The grocery numbers stand in stark contrast to the broader trend in U.S. prices, which fell 0.8% in April and clinched their largest one-month decline since 2008.

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the USA:  1,035,765. COVID-19 deaths in the USA:  59,266  Tyson Foods idles its largest pork plant after Iowa outbreak Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the community. The company said the indefinite closure of the Waterloo, Iowa, plant would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further disrupt the nation’s meat supply. Tyson had kept the facility, its largest pork plant, open in recent days over the objections of local officials. The plant can process 19,500 hogs per day, accounting for nearly 4% of U.S. pork processing capacity, according to the National Pork Board.  Two cats in New York test positive for coronavirus Two cats in New York have been infecte...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 210 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. Confirmed USA cases are:  710,021 Deaths in the USA are:  37,158 N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count  New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it. The new figures, released by the city’s Health Department, drove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000, and appeared to increase the overall United States death count by 17 percent to more than 26,000.