Prognosis
Mpox Health Emergency to Be Lifted as US Cases Dwindle
- US is recording fewer than 10 cases per day, CDC data show
- Health officials corrected sluggish start to addressing virus
Digitally-colorized electron microscopic image depicting a monkeypox virion.
Source: Smith Collection/Gado/Archive Photos
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US health officials are preparing to end the emergency declaration for mpox, the virus known as monkeypox until recently, as cases dwindle.
The Health and Human Services Department “does not expect that it needs to renew the emergency declaration when it ends on January 31,” Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday in a statement. “But we won’t take our foot off the gas -- we will continue to monitor the case trends closely and encourage all at-risk individuals to get a free vaccine.”