The Epoch Times By
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday it has “moderate confidence” that daily monkeypox cases in the United States will plateau or decline in the coming weeks but an increase is possible.
In its third technical report on the monkeypox outbreak, the CDC said cases likely peaked in August and that going forward, the outbreak could plateau, decline, or exponentially rise slowly or rapidly.
“Among these scenarios, we assess daily cases in the United States will most likely continue to decline or plateau over the next two to four weeks. We have moderate confidence in this assessment but note the possibility, as described above, that incidence could increase again,” the technical report states.
Since the first U.S. case in Massachusetts in May, there have been 24,841 monkeypox cases reported to the CDC. The median age of cases is 34. As far as the CDC is aware, there have been 29 confirmed and around 50 probable pediatric cases, which are defined as people younger than 18.
