On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "Don Lemon Tonight," White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator Dr. Demetre Daskalakis stated that the increase in monkeypox cases "shows that the virus really has really been characterized by lots of twists and turns." And that "the thought was that you start a monkeypox outbreak and you really focus on vaccinating people, people's contacts. And when it became clear that that wasn't feasible, because not everyone knew who their contacts were, we had to pivot and really switch our strategy to think about really extending how we use vaccine[s] in a different way."