WHO: Monkeypox Containable; FDA Sets Date for Toddler Vax Debate; COVID Organ Damage

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The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains that the growing monkeypox outbreak remains “containable,” and that there’s no immediate need for mass vaccination against the orthopoxvirus; since May 7, a total of 131 confirmed cases and 106 suspected cases have been reported in countries where it usually does not spread. (Reuters)

However, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control suggested there is a risk monkeypox could become endemic in Europe if the current outbreak isn’t wrestled under control. (STAT)

Meanwhile, Washington state is investigating a presumptive monkeypox case, Public Health Seattle & King County announced, which would bring the number of confirmed or possible U.S. cases to six.

The FDA will meet mid-June to discuss pediatric COVID vaccine authorization requests from Pfizer/BioNTech (for kids 6 months to 4 years) and from Moderna (for kids 6 months to 17 years).

As of Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID toll was 83,406,411 cases and 1,003,336 deaths, increases of 160,113 and 302, respectively, compared to this time Monday morning.

A rising number of COVID-19 cases in New York City are causing disruptions at some public schools. Positive tests among students and staff neared 11,000 last week. (New York Daily News)

In China, Beijing extended its work-from-home requirement for many of its 22 million residents in an effort to curb an ongoing COVID outbreak, while Shanghai deployed more testing and restrictions after 2 months of lockdown. (Reuters)

Damage to organs, including the lungs and kidneys is common in people hospitalized with COVID-19, according to new research in Nature Medicine, and one in eight patients were found to have heart inflammation.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, is raising the alarm over increasing burnout in healthcare and the impending worker shortages in the coming years.

The American Hospital Association wants the Justice Department to investigate major health insurance companies’ routine denials of medically necessary care. (Healthcare Finance)

The FDA approved treprostinil (Tyvaso DPI), an inhalation powder to improve exercise ability in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group 1) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease (WHO Group 3), United Therapeutics Corporation announced.

A new clinic offering abortions is set to open in Wyoming, even though the state faces a looming ban. (NPR)

An Iowa simulation that is meant to teach people about dementia is aiming to “change the culture of aging.” (USA Today)

Three cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers and will graduate with bachelor’s degrees instead. (AP)

In the U.K., a nurse at Birmingham Children’s Hospital has been arrested after the suspected poisoning death of an infant last week. (The Guardian)