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Re: Monkeypox cases as per July 27th 2022
Spain has 4,300+ cases but the initial outbreak was about 50% centered in Madrid, so there wasn't as much dissemination of monkeypox into the other regions of Spain. I haven't seen a recent breakdown but my guess is that the concentration of cases is going to be in Madrid and Catalonia.
We're in peak vacation time in the northern hemisphere so that concentration of cases may change as international travelers descend upon Ibiza, Barcelona and other travel destinations where they will return from their vacation with a case of monkeypox.
What am I worried about? The US has over 5,000 cases but we have reported cases in 47 out of 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Only Montana, Vermont and Wyoming have not any cases of monkeypox (yet).
That means that it's everywhere, all over the US.
And we're going to spread it from the U.S. to the countries where we travel to for vacations over the next month.
True but per capita data in communicable diseases doesn't really give us the full picture.if you break it down to the number of citizens in each country - Spain has 8 times more cases per 100k inhabitants than the US...
Spain has 4,300+ cases but the initial outbreak was about 50% centered in Madrid, so there wasn't as much dissemination of monkeypox into the other regions of Spain. I haven't seen a recent breakdown but my guess is that the concentration of cases is going to be in Madrid and Catalonia.
We're in peak vacation time in the northern hemisphere so that concentration of cases may change as international travelers descend upon Ibiza, Barcelona and other travel destinations where they will return from their vacation with a case of monkeypox.
What am I worried about? The US has over 5,000 cases but we have reported cases in 47 out of 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Only Montana, Vermont and Wyoming have not any cases of monkeypox (yet).
That means that it's everywhere, all over the US.
And we're going to spread it from the U.S. to the countries where we travel to for vacations over the next month.
The last update that I saw was that Spain had purchased about 5,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine. The vaccine is a 2 dose regimen, so that's only enough for about 2,500 people. That will not be sufficient to stop the escalation in cases.Exactly: like when covid started and it was nothing in America, just some Asian or European thing, and it would disappear like a miracle; the cases of "the US" are mainly today those in SF and NYC, which has declared public health emergency, unlike anywhere in Spain (Madrid or Barcelona, their equivalent, to which you might be more right to compare, instead of pitting a 9M km2 "country" of wide deserted plains against a 0.5M km2 nation of one single deserted plain).
Like with covid-19, the US is a bigger pond that would need more time and exposure for cases to start really showing up.


