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No one knows the full extent of the outbreak after delays in testing, data collection and vaccine rollout allowed monkeypox to spread across the U.S.
The monkeypox story looks frustratingly to experts like a repeat of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Tests took too long to get going. The data did not reveal the full extent of the outbreak. The spread was not stopped quickly enough.
Monkey pox was supposed to be different because it is much harder to transmit, treatments and vaccines were already available, a lot was known about a virus first described in 1958and many lessons were supposedly learned from COVID-19.
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