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Written Testimony for City Council Health Committee Hearing on Monkeypox, scheduled for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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Letter from Government Accountability Office to the Health Commissioner
The Gothamist covered the story in an article that was published on August 9, 2022. Link is:
"Reassignment"
Audio of meeting with HR (copy link and paste into browser to listen)
Emails
From: Don Weiss
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 8:50 AM
To: redacted
Subject: RE: HCW PeP vaccine for positive MP case
At the risk of being blasted into politically incorrect oblivion, when this has nothing to do with politics, wouldn't refraining from anonymous sex for 2 incubation periods end the outbreak at a much lower cost and energy?
Have there been any prevention messages to the MSM community?
From: Don Weiss
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 3:06 PM
To: redacted
Subject: RE: CDC updated the clinical FAQ to address condom use after
finishing isolation
It is a taboo subject. We encountered this back in 2013 with meningococcal outbreak. It is perceived as insensitive (or worse) to suggest that MSM should alter behavior, even temporarily.
From: Don Weiss <Dweiss@health.nyc.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:25 PM
To: redacted
Subject: RE: CDC updated the clinical FAQ to address condom use after
finishing isolation
Well, I am also wondering why no prevention message has gone out, as I've said, this outbreak could be stopped if the community took a few (temporary) steps to place a moratorium on anonymous sex.
When there's contaminated lettuce, people stop buying and eating.
From: Don Weiss
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 4:52 PM
To: redacted
Subject: sad prediction
MPX will become an endemic STI in NYC, taking it's place alongside gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and herpes. Soon we will start to see cases in women, then among non-MSM and not long after that we will have our first congenital infection. It will happen on our watch. We cannot vaccinate our way out of this, nor can we isolate our way out of this. The only way out is to abstain. I know I sound like a bible thumping preacher, but this is the exposure we need to PREVENT. We don't have much time to intervene and it may already be too late.
From: Don Weiss
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 8:18 AM
To: redacted
Subject: RE: team assignments
This disease is entirely preventable had we the courage to send out prevention messages. I understand the reluctance to warn people to refrain from anonymous sex, yet harm reduction has not made an appearance. We seem paralyzed by the fear of stigmatizing this disease while we totally ignore the epidemiology. If we had an outbreak associated with bowling, would we not warn people to stop bowling?