The Biden administration declared Monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday afternoon. “We urge every American to take monkeypox seriously,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra said at the press conference. The first U.S. case was identified in mid-May, but reported cases have now topped 6,600 across the nation. One thousand-two hundred of those cases have come in the last three days. President Joe Biden and his administration have been criticized in recent weeks for failure to act faster, especially after the Department of Health and Human Services waited over three we…