When the first case of monkeypox raised alarm in the United Kingdom on May 13 and the headlines about potential spread began circulating, many people wondered: Is this the new pandemic, the next threat to worry about, even more than Covid-19, which is currently at some of its highest peaks in the United States? Or is this a distraction from the primary public health crisis—a “charismatic” new pathogen stealing attention because privileged Americans have decided they are done with Covid? The...
