Denver is Colorado's monkeypox epicenter, but the disease has been found in 18 other counties.
put in place to deal with the pandemic. On this front, the news was mostly upbeat: COVID cases and hospitalizations have declined over the past few weeks, and the positivity rate for the disease is down substantially as well.
Monkeypox has been mischaracterized in some quarters as a"gay disease," since a large percentage of the early cases have been linked to individuals who identify as homosexual or bisexual — and that's also the case in Colorado, where more than 75 percent of people with monkeypox fall into these categories.
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CDPHE works with local groups to provide mobile monkeypox vaccine unitsThe Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is working with LGBTQ advocacy organizations to provide monkeypox mobile vaccine units as cases of the virus continue to grow across the state. MicahSmith_TV reports:
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Monkeypox heavily impacting communities of color in Colorado, CDPHE demographic data showsQueer Black and Latino men are at greater risk of catching monkeypox than any other racial or ethnic group in Colorado, newly released demographic data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows.
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Stanford experts document non-sexual transmission of monkeypoxAlthough the recent outbreak of monkeypox cases seem to primarily spread through sexual contact between men, a recent case documented at Stanford University raises questions about transmissibility.
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US announces new efforts against monkeypoxWhile intimate contact is the highest-risk form of spread, the White House says other populations could also become more vulnerable to monkeypox.
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First on CNN: Biden officials accelerating monkeypox vaccine effort with 1.8 million additional doses and other stepsTop Biden administration officials are set to announce new steps Thursday to accelerate the US response to the spread of monkeypox amid high demand for vaccines and treatments.
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Rutgers University Continuing Mask and Vaccine MandateRutgers University plans to keep its mask and vaccine mandate in place for the fall semester, citing risks of both the Chinese coronavirus as well as monkeypox.
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