Sustaining commitment through panic and neglect

Monkeypox containment

I have a new essay out in Nature today about something that has been troubling me: sustaining commitment to ending the monkeypox epidemic. The cycle of panic and neglect is an old story in public health, and I am wary of how it will play out for monkeypox. Attention and energy ride on parallel tracks with case counts. In the U.S., w…