Bay Area reporting 122 cases total as vaccine supply remains low
As monkeypox cases rise across the country and with 122 reported among six counties in the Bay Area as of Monday, the new virus is raising questions from a public weary of outbreaks.
And while experts try to figure out exactly how the virus spreads, the Bay Area is experiencing a severe lack of vaccine supply. San Francisco announced Friday that it would be receiving around 4,000 doses of the shot, far fewer than the 35,000 it had requested earlier in the week from the federal government. Other local Bay Area counties also are reporting shortages. The federal government plans to release around 1.6 million doses in the coming months.
So how worried should you be? We talked to Arthur Reingold, chair of UC Berkeley’s Epidemiology Division at the School of Public Health, about what risk monkeypox poses to the general public, what symptoms to watch out for and what to consider when it comes to a vaccine.Your risk depends to a certain extent on your behaviors and whom you spend time with. At the moment, the virus seems to be spreading largely among men who have sex with men.
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