Contact Editor Sherman Smith for questions: Follow Kansas Reflector on Facebook and Twitter. Kansas Reflector maintains editorial independence. Kansas Reflector is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Kansas doctors stress need to stay vigilant as monkeypox becomes a public health emergencyĪugKansas doctors stress need to stay vigilant as monkeypox becomes a public health emergencyīy Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector August 5, 2022 It helps for their emotional, physical and mental health, but also things such as school lunches and just safe places.” “We have seen a large decrease in the amount of teachers, but also substitute teachers, and we need to keep schools going,” Hawkinson said. With a return to school right around the corner and most districts opting for optional masking, Hawkinson also urged parents to vaccinate kids to protect themselves and staff. Hawkinson urged Kansans that use at-home tests and return a negative result to retest one or two days later if they have symptoms, unless they have a PCR test. I think this may be our highest surge we’ve actually had.” “I think there’s a lot of people out there with COVID right now, and the lack of any real public health information probably misleads us a little bit,” Stites said. While reported case numbers have plateaued, he warned the actual numbers could be a lot higher. Steven Stites, chief medical officer with KU Health, is concerned another health emergency will contribute to growing COVID-19 weariness. The hardest-hit states are New York, California, Illinois, Florida, Georgia and Texas. More than 7,100 monkeypox cases have been reported in the United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday the administration had delivered more than 600,000 vaccines in partnership with local, state and tribal governments.
“Hopefully, we are working on that as a nation and really trying to roll out the supply of vaccines as we get them, but also create that access so that everybody has access to those vaccines,” he said. Hawkinson added that efforts to inform people of preventive measures and vaccines available to treat monkeypox should be ongoing. The viruses, the infections, don’t care who you are,” Hawkinson said during a media briefing Wednesday.
“We have seen this throughout history and throughout other diseases as well - it doesn’t stick to demographics. While most patients who have monkeypox are men who have sex with men, Dana Hawkinson, medical director of infection prevention and control at the University of Kansas Health System, is encouraging everyone to stay vigilant. Federal officials declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday. TOPEKA - Kansas doctors are hoping to combat misinformation and general fatigue toward infection control protocols as a new public health emergency emerges, this time for monkeypox.ĬOVID-19 cases have leveled out the past few weeks in Kansas, and heat maps nationwide show similar trends, but the public health emergency remains with warnings about new variants.
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