Biomedical Racism, Queer Theory, and the Monkeypox Epidemic
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Are There Treatments for Monkeypox?
There's a drug called TECOVIRMAT, which in the states goes by Tpox with two Xs at the end. The drug was developed through our tax investment and approved by the federal government. But it is not FDA approved for monkeypox even though some of the animal data was from monkeypox itself. There are up to two million doses of this drug sitting on a shelf. We don't know how effective it is, although observational studies show more limited than usual safety data.
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