Major decisions made by the agencies that hurt morale included support for masking in schools, school closures during the pandemic and the authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children four and under.
There are about 6,000 cases of monkeypox in the US, which is spread through close physical contact, and has mostly infected gay men. New York City has about 25% of all cases in the United States.
Monkeypox is often indistinguishable from chickenpox, which, when it manifests in adults, is called shingles. What some people are now experiencing that the media is calling monkeypox could actually be chickenpox or shingles.