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“The United States has failed to respond well to Covid-19 with, among other issues, a lack of testing and low vaccination rates. The new epidemic shows that the country has still not learned the lesson”, écrit The Economist.
Monkey pox – “a rare virus similar to smallpox but less often fatal”, recalls the British weekly – has been declared a health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). Monday 1is August, it was the governors of California and Illinois who declared a state of emergency, reports CNN, as New York State had already done.
The United States has confirmed more than 5,800 cases of this virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a US public health agency. Either the highest number