Vicki, what’s unbelievable is the media’s strange interpretation of the word “mild.” STAT News, which is an otherwise excellent source for all things health-related, wrote this morning about the UK program to provide ALL at risk people the opportunity to take a smallpox vaccine. In the piece they say “while most cases of monkeypox have so far been mild.” I guess to STAT News and many others the only thing that isn’t mild is death, because most of the monkeypox cases in Britain have been hospitalized at one point or another. That is not mild. Monkeypox isn’t a mild illness to be taken lightly.
We’ve seen this before with the Omicron variant, described as “mild” by the media. And yes, to the vast majority of folks who get Omicron the symptoms are quite mild (me, for example). But, for tens of thousands who’ve died there was nothing mild about it. And, for the hundreds of thousands hospitalized, idem ditto.
Here, Omicron differs from monkeypox, in that all known cases of monkeypox thus far are symptomatic and include features most people wouldn’t describe as mild in every day parlance.
I just do not understand. It worries me when other countries that I tend to rely on do this
It just occurred to me that I have not seen Israel mentioned in quiet a while for either monkey pic or covid. Did I just miss this.
Interesting also that at risk folks are offered smallpox vaccines. I need to research to see if SP vaccines some of us have are still providing some protection
Israel is still very much in the news on both Covid-19 and monkeypox. Israel has an excellent record on public health and a very strong public health system. It’s a very small country, so we shouldn’t think that what Israel does can be replicated here. It can’t. But we can still learn a thing or two, certainly at the state level.
Hmmmm I will have to look closer. Thank you.
I agree that we can replicate Israel’s practices here. But we can learn from its studies and research.
Mac’s family had a very close friend who was a doctor in Haifa. I had the pleasure of meeting him when out visits to Charleston happened to coincide. We had a shortish but fascinating discussion. I can’t recall his name sadly.
Vicki, what’s unbelievable is the media’s strange interpretation of the word “mild.” STAT News, which is an otherwise excellent source for all things health-related, wrote this morning about the UK program to provide ALL at risk people the opportunity to take a smallpox vaccine. In the piece they say “while most cases of monkeypox have so far been mild.” I guess to STAT News and many others the only thing that isn’t mild is death, because most of the monkeypox cases in Britain have been hospitalized at one point or another. That is not mild. Monkeypox isn’t a mild illness to be taken lightly.
We’ve seen this before with the Omicron variant, described as “mild” by the media. And yes, to the vast majority of folks who get Omicron the symptoms are quite mild (me, for example). But, for tens of thousands who’ve died there was nothing mild about it. And, for the hundreds of thousands hospitalized, idem ditto.
Here, Omicron differs from monkeypox, in that all known cases of monkeypox thus far are symptomatic and include features most people wouldn’t describe as mild in every day parlance.
I just do not understand. It worries me when other countries that I tend to rely on do this
It just occurred to me that I have not seen Israel mentioned in quiet a while for either monkey pic or covid. Did I just miss this.
Interesting also that at risk folks are offered smallpox vaccines. I need to research to see if SP vaccines some of us have are still providing some protection
Israel is still very much in the news on both Covid-19 and monkeypox. Israel has an excellent record on public health and a very strong public health system. It’s a very small country, so we shouldn’t think that what Israel does can be replicated here. It can’t. But we can still learn a thing or two, certainly at the state level.
Hmmmm I will have to look closer. Thank you.
I agree that we can replicate Israel’s practices here. But we can learn from its studies and research.
Mac’s family had a very close friend who was a doctor in Haifa. I had the pleasure of meeting him when out visits to Charleston happened to coincide. We had a shortish but fascinating discussion. I can’t recall his name sadly.
My latest Forbes piece is on long Covid: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2022/06/22/dutch-research-on-long-covid-shows-50-of-study-participants-have-1-or-more-symptoms-3-months-after-becoming-infected-with-coronavirus/
Traces of polio virus found in London wastewater. Not good. There are multiple polio outbreaks worldwide, including Israel. https://twitter.com/BNNUK/status/1539586872036495362
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