California's monkeypox response has been aided and accelerated by lessons learned from COVID, but red tape plagues both.
That was the refrain that popped up repeatedly on Tuesday, when California lawmakers convened for two separate hearings on the two viruses for which Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a public health state of emergency: COVID-19 and monkeypox.
The key takeaway from the two hearings — which, ironically, took place at the exact same time in the exact same building — was that although California’s monkeypox response has been aided and accelerated by lessons learned from the COVID pandemic, some frustrating problems continue to repeat themselves,“We have shot ourselves in the foot,” state Sen.
Because the drug — federally approved to treat smallpox — hasn’t been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat monkeypox, it requires hours of paperwork for each patient, along with an ethics review. This “lengthy process has inhibited many medical centers and clinics from being able to offer the drug to many people,” said Dr. Vivek Jain, an associate professor of medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. To state Sen.
“What we learned from COVID is that speed is everything. When we look at the response of monkeypox later on, we’ll see speed is the main thing we take issue with,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco and a member of the state’s scientific advisory committee for monkeypox,
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