U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and two leaders of the White House monkeypox response team joined officials with the D.C.
Department of Health on Thursday for a visit to D.C.’s recently opened Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic on Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., S.E.
in Ward 8. In a briefing for reporters, who were invited to join Becerra and the White House officials on a tour of the clinic, the D.C.
and federal officials pointed to a sharp decline in new monkeypox cases in D.C. as a sign of a successful federal and local government partnership in dramatically boosting the number of people at risk for monkeypox who have been vaccinated. “I welcome you all to our Ward 8 Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic,” said Dr.