Carlson declared the results of a Twitter poll on his Fox News show Thursday night, stating: "So, monkeypox is about the coolest name ever for a disease."
"But they are changing the name because of racism or something."
"So, we had a vote," Carlson then announced:"There was no ballot harvesting. You can trust our counting. And the new name for monkeypox is now officially – and we’re declaring it – schlong COVID. That won our audience election result with about 40% of the vote. So, let Rochelle Walensky at the CDC know."
Walensky is the director of the CDC, and one of the most public health officials in the United States
The term"schlong COVID" seems to reference the fact that around 95 percent of people thus far infected by COVID have been gay men.
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Carlson's Twitter survey had more than 26,000 votes, with schlong COVID the favorite among 39 percent of respondents.
Midterm Variant was runner-up, with 24 percent, while Adam Schiffilis came third, with 20 percent, and Hunter Hives was fifth, with 17 percent.
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Some progressive health officials have asked for monkeypox to have its name changed because the original title could be construed as racist.
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Last month, the World Health Organization announced it would rename the disease, although it has yet to declare the replacement term.
The jokes came as San Francisco, a city with a high population of gay people, announced a state of emergency because of the disease outbreak.
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Mayor London Breed's said her statement would enable officials to cut through red tape and fight a public health disaster reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that devastated the city in the 1980s.
Monkeypox generally resolves itself with mild symptoms, while AIDS had a nearly 100 percent death rate for the first 15 years of the epidemic, up until the mid-1990s.
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Others have proposed that San Francisco is an overreaction.
"We are at a very scary place. And we don't want to be ignored by the federal government in our need. So many leaders of the LGBT community have also, weeks ago, asked for additional help and support and assistance," announced Mayor London Breed.
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The city is in"desperate need of vaccines," she stated.
The declaration, which takes effect Monday, was welcomed by gay advocates who have grown increasingly frustrated by what they called San Francisco's lackluster response to a virus that thus far has affected primarily men who have sex with men, although anyone can get infected.
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