Two state lawmakers from San Francisco are blasting the federal government for what they said is a slow response to the monkeypox outbreak.
Los Angeles-based actor Matt Ford is also among those trying to warn people about the spread of monkeypox. He got monkeypox and has now taken to TikTok to describe his infection.
"It was extremely painful to the point where I could not sleep," Ford said in a TikTok video."I had to be prescribed narcotic pain killers to be able to even go to sleep and the ones I was prescribed barely cut it at that."Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF, said there is an effective drug to treat people who have monkeypox.
"Just last weekend we treated a couple of patients at UCSF with severe disease and it's going really well," Chin-Hong said."The patients are getting better really quickly." The doctor adds that drug, tecovirimat, is only approved for limited use and can only be prescribed in specific cases. San Francisco reports 40 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox, which is more than double the amount of cases last week.
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