“The best way to ensure you won’t become infected is to get vaccinated,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, the Baker Institute fellow in disease and poverty. “Monkeypox, although rarely fatal, is a serious and debilitating infectious disease, and could require hospitalization.”
"This is making people afraid and rethink their investment,” said Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico. “We should expect continued flare-ups, local fights and a generalized environment of violence, crime and terror for the foreseeable future.”
“The price of fuel is not that big a deal,” said energy fellow Mark Finley, "but if you look at its impact on consumer confidence, it seems to be a proxy for how you feel about the world in general.”
"The strategy to me does not match the nature of the drug,” said U.S.-Mexico Center director Tony Payan of Texas Gov. Abbott's plan to target cheap, easily smuggled fentanyl. Big fentanyl drug busts? Not always impressive, Payan added. "Dealers can afford to lose a lot of it and still make a very handsome profit.”