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Republican Senator Richard Burr Slams US Monkeypox Response

Senator Richard Burr says US is failing at controlling spread
Testing bottlenecks, sluggish vaccine rollout among concerns

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By Madison Muller

July 13, 2022 at 6:15 PM UTC

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A fierce critic of the US Covid-19 strategy, Republican Senator Richard Burr condemned the Biden administration’s response to the outbreak of monkeypox virus and called again for the creation of a new government office to deal specifically with pandemics.

“The United States is once again significantly behind the curve, failing to learn from the devastating effects of Covid-19, and other recent infectious disease threats, like Ebola and Zika,” Burr said Wednesday in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra that was obtained by Bloomberg.