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So my friend in Rio has Monkeypoxx

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Cross-posted here and at The Beer Bar forum:

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... Brazil, which, according to the World Health Organization, has close to 10 percent of global monkeypox cases, currently has no vaccine or treatment either. 

The NY Times is featuring a report in today's (09.12.2022) online edition (a subscription may be required to read the article in its entirety).  The report discusses more than just Brazil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/health/monkeypox-vaccines-treatments-equity.html

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1 hour ago, Mavica said:

Cross-posted here and at The Beer Bar forum:

The NY Times is featuring a report in today's (09.12.2022) online edition (a subscription may be required to read the article in its entirety).  The report discusses more than just Brazil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/health/monkeypox-vaccines-treatments-equity.html

It appears to be more dire than that, but this point in time may not reflect the future. Cumulative to date is not as relevant a share of global count and higher case accumulations tend to be associated with subsequent drops in incidence. Brazil’s current rolling incidence is trending at 18% of the total global new incidence. However, the ratio is driven by declining incidence elsewhere. The trend has been for new case incidence to hover at a peak and then drop, irrespective of vaccine access. Brazil’s incidence has held steady for 6 weeks following an earlier rapid 10-fold increase. Fingers crossed for them. Obviously vaccine inequity has played a part and administration of MVA-BN would help either prevent incidence increases or drop the curve more quickly than is tentatively predicted. 

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