New Yorkers stood in a long line on Sunday (July 17) to get themselves a monkeypox vaccine. Here is all you need to know.
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The city has become an epicenter of outbreaks of disease in the US. The city lacks an adequate number of vaccine doses and AFP quoted people standing in line as saying that they felt lucky to have got an appointment for vaccination. 9200 slots became available on the city’s dedicated website on Friday. Within seven minutes, the slots were full. The page crashed three days ago due to very high traffic.
“It was frustrating, largely because especially with COVID-19, you’d think that we would have more of a structured process or vaccine rollout,” told Aidan Baglivo. “There just wasn’t really anything.”
The number of monkeypox infections rose last week in New York. On Friday (July 15), the number of infections reached 461 new since the start of the outbreak. On Monday last week, this number was 223.
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Robert, who declined to give his last name, said he sat at his computer refreshing the website” like a crazy person” until he got a vaccine slot.
“This shouldn’t be an issue because there’s already a vaccine, and it (the rollout) should be… more efficient to prevent it from becoming more of an issue,” said the 28-year-old.
Neither his partner nor his best friend has been able to get a vaccine. “Every additional day where there are not more people being vaccinated is a bummer.”
Monkeypox spreads through close physical contact and anyone can get infected. However, the Jynneos vaccine is currently reserved for men who have sex with men. This section of society has seen a large number of infections.
