The covid-19 pandemic has improved communication between researchers and officials, and may even have prompted Uganda’s initial lockdown against Ebola.
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December 27, 2022
A person receives the smallpox vaccine to prevent monkeypox in Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2022. Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock
In 2022, the third year of the covid-19 pandemic, the virus has changed how we respond to other infectious disease outbreaks.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus continues to cause hospitalizations, deaths and increased pressure on health services, albeit to a much lesser extent than before a vaccine against it was deployed. Covid-19 wasn’t the only infectious disease outbreak the world recently fought.
Monkeypox, now called mpox, was confirmed in a non-endemic country in May…
