Testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but there's a 'shocking' lack of demand

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Testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but there's a 'shocking' lack of demand

Thu, 2022-07-28 17:15 — FNUOvviyaa

Testing is crucial to getting monkeypox under control, but there's a 'shocking' lack of demand Testing for monkeypox, a crucial part of containing the growing outbreak, has gotten off to a sluggish start at the five commercial laboratories that are doing nearly all of the nation's testing, CNN has learned. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent CNN

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"This is really, really concerning. It's like Covid PTSD," he said, referring to the early phase of the pandemic when coronavirus testing was extremely limited. While the anxiety is the same, the reasons are different because for Covid-19, the testing capacity was low, and for monkeypox, the capacity is plentiful but the demand is low...

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