San Diego County announced it will hold two monkeypox vaccination events this week while also having 250 scheduled vaccination appointments at county clinics.
In addition, according to the county's Health and Human Services Agency, more than 1,000 appointments were announced through the county text service Monday morning -- and were filled an hour later."As vaccine becomes available, the county will continue its efforts to vaccinate as many of those eligible as possible given the shortage of supply," said Dr. Wilma Wooten, county public health officer.
The two South County events are Wednesday and Thursday between 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. each day at Chula Vista Bayfront Park, 980 Marina Way, adjacent to and just north of the boat launch. Around 400 doses will be provided each day. The California Department of Public Health recommends intradermal injection, except for people who have a history of developing keloid scars and people under 18, both of whom would still require subcutaneous injection. People who are immunocompromised can receive intradermal injections.California allocates vaccines to counties based on the number of monkeypox cases in the county in the past two weeks and the number of early syphilis cases in men reported in a region.
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