About 900,000 Mpox Vaccine Jabs Now Allocated By WHO Health Authorities -- To Nine Primary African Nations...

The Pan-African need will approach about three times this first allocation, over the next year or so, but this is a very good start -- on arresting the spread.

With this medical aid, and increased funding, the tide may finally be turning on the continent in this 2024 outbreak, now -- per WHO:

. . .The 9 countries are the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. The largest number of doses – 85% of the allocation – will go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the most affected country, reporting four out of every five laboratory-confirmed cases in Africa this year.

These doses come from Canada, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain, as well as the European Union Health Emergency Response Authority), and the Unites States of America.

This year, 19 countries in Africa have reported mpox, many of them newly affected by the viral disease. The epicentre of the outbreak remains the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 38 000 suspected cases and over 1000 deaths reported this year. . . .

And so -- while we accept the result, and re-commit to peaceful resistance (as we last did in 2017-2021). . . we agree with Madame Vice President: it is once again, not a time for hand-wringing. . . it is a time to roll up our sleeves, and get to work -- using the courts primarily, to resist those who would trample our system of ordered liberties. Onward.

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