{"id":143222,"date":"2022-07-30T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/new-york-city-declares-monkeypox-a-public-health-emergency"},"modified":"2022-07-30T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T03:22:20","slug":"new-york-city-declares-monkeypox-a-public-health-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/new-york-city-declares-monkeypox-a-public-health-emergency","title":{"rendered":"New York City declares monkeypox a public health emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-city-declares-monkeypox-a-public-health-emergency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Officials in New York City declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-health-public-united-nations-epidemics-159051644b78feb782b885b0a83cd259\">monkeypox virus<\/a> Saturday, calling the city \u201cthe epicenter\u201d of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement Saturday by Mayor Eric Adams and health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said as many as 150,000 city residents could be at risk of infection. The declaration will allow officials to issue emergency orders under the city health code and amend code provisions to implement measures to help slow the spread.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two days, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency declaration and the state health department called monkeypox an \u201cimminent threat to public health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Officials in New York City declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the monkeypox virus Saturday, calling the city \u201cthe epicenter\u201d of the outbreak. The announcement Saturday by Mayor Eric Adams and health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said as many as 150,000 city residents could be at risk of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}