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SAN FRANCISCO (LifeSiteNews) — Well known for its flamboyant LGBT culture and hard-left policies, San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to declare a public health state of emergency due to the spread of monkeypox, an infectious virus that almost exclusively affects gay men.
San Francisco officials made the declaration Thursday, giving the green light to the city’s Democrat Mayor London Breed to “marshal resources and personnel to confront the intensifying monkeypox outbreak,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The move comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a global health emergency last weekend and as Americans await a possible federal emergency declaration from the Biden administration.
Today San Francisco declared monkeypox a public health emergency, effective August 1, 2022. This action will help speed up and streamline to better respond to monkeypox 1/3 pic.twitter.com/1eoEKTNjdC
— SFDPH (@SF_DPH) July 28, 2022
San Francisco health officer Susan Philip said Thursday that city officials “want the flexibility
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