Two San Francisco lawmakers on Friday decried the federal response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak, urging the government to distribute additional vaccines.
"The good news is that we have an effective vaccine that prevents monkeypox. The bad news is that the federal government has once again had a public health failure, this time by failing to order enough vaccine doses to prepare for this foreseeable outbreak," Wiener and Haney said."It's completely unacceptable that the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other community clinics are receiving so few doses.
In an interview with KPIX 5 on Friday, Wiener said,"If we don't get ahead of this virus and contain it, it's not just going to be affecting just gay and bi men. It's going to move out into the general population."that they are in urgent need to doses, as California cases have doubled in the past week.Wiener said more vaccines have been ordered by the federal government, but it's not fast enough.
Castro resident Christopher Vasquez got the first of a two-dose monkeypox vaccine on Thursday, and said his phone is constantly full of text messages from people who don't know where to get the vaccine. Where he lives, Vasquez meets friends on the street who opt for an elbow-bump greeting instead of handshakes. One man said to Vasquez,"I don't want to get the monkeypox."
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