Although monkeypox cases are still increasing nationally, the speed of the outbreak appears to be slowing.
"We're not seeing the potentially exponential growth that we were seeing early on so that is reassuring," said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago's public health commissioner, during a Facebook live event earlier this week."Too early to say things look really good, but definitely some signs of slowing of cases."
The CDC previously estimated that up to 1.7 million gay and bisexual men who are HIV-positive or are eligible for medicine to reduce their chance of contracting HIV face the greatest health risk from monkeypox. To date, the outbreak is disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic men. About 30% of monkeypox patients are white, 32% are Hispanic and 23% are Black, according to CDC data. Whites make up about 59% of the U.S. population while Hispanics and Blacks account for 19% and 13%, respectively.
About 94% of monkeypox cases are associated with sexual contact and nearly all of the people who have contracted the virus are men who have sex with men, according to Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy head of the White House monkeypox response team.
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