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New York City will receive another 14,500 doses of the monkeypox
vaccine from the federal government this week, the health
department said on Monday.

The department also distributed the remaining 2,500 doses from
the last shipment at New York City’s temporary vaccine clinics
at the Central Harlem Sexual Health Clinic, the Chelsea Sexual
Health Clinic and the Corona Sexual Health Clinic, officials
said. The next wave of new appointments will go online Tuesday
at 1 p.m., on the health department’s website. Half of those
will be available online, and the other through direct referrals
from providers for higher risk New Yorkers.

The additional doses come as the city health department faces
growing criticism about its handling of the vaccination
distribution so far. When the first 1,000 doses arrived last
month, appointments were gone within hours. Then last week,
another shipment of 6,000 doses was met with technical
difficulties that caused an appointment scheduling nightmare for
some hoping to schedule their shot. When they were finally
online, they were also gone within minutes.

“This is far, far too little,” Manhattan Borough President Mark
Levine said in a tweet after the technical glitch last week. “We
need the feds to dramatically up our allocation ASAP.”

New York City has become the epicenter for the virus. Cases have
doubled in a week, with 223 positive orthopoxvirus cases as of
Monday, nearly 25% of the cases in the U.S., which has a total
of 866 cases. Health officials have said that due to the delay
in testing, numbers are likely much higher.

The state total as of Monday was at 238 cases, the city health
department said, including seven in Westchester, four in
Suffolk, one in Nassau, one in Sullivan, one in Chemung and one
in Rockland counties.

To address increasing concerns about the outbreak, city Health
Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan and state Health Commissioner Dr.
Mary Bassett delivered a briefing at a town hall on Monday.

“I think we need to really power up our vaccination supply if
we're going to start to make inroads. And we're grateful to the
partnership we've had from the federal government for that to
date, but we need to keep pushing,” Vasan said.

Health officials have gone to great lengths to stress in their
messaging that anyone can get monkeypox, but that the current
outbreak started, and is spreading primarily, amongst gay and
bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men. For that
reason, that’s the population currently being targeted for
vaccination.

“By now, we should have learned our lesson that things don't
stay where they start, and we need everyone to be alert,”
Bassett said, referencing the ongoing efforts to curb the COVID-
19 pandemic. “But right now, the overwhelming majority of cases
are currently men who have sex with men and it's particularly
important that we ensure that people know what they can do to
protect themselves and this community.”

Bassett said the U.S. was caught flat-footed and unprepared when
the virus started spreading. According to Bassett, the federal
government stockpiled the vaccine out of a concern that smallpox
would be used as a bioterrorism threat, failing to consider the
spread of monkeypox.

“The supplies were never never envisioned this, despite the fact
that monkey pox was endemic in eight or more countries in West
and Central Africa,” Bassett said. “Part of why we're here is
because we’ve overlook the fact that we are indeed in a global
world, that monkeypox could come and affect us all, and that’s a
lesson that we seem to need to keep learning as a nation.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams penned a letter to President Joe
Biden this week with an urgent call for more doses of the
vaccine, the New York Post reported.

“While we appreciate the approximately 7,000 vaccine doses that
have been sent to New York City thus far, and the approximately
14,500 doses we expect to receive by the end of the week, we
urgently need need far more to slow the spread and protect at
risk populations,” the letter read, according to the report.

Monkeypox is spread through intimate skin to skin contact and
often characterized by lesions throughout the body and its
symptoms include swollen lymph glands, chills, fever, and
fatigue. For more information on monkeypox, visit the city’s
website here.

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-will-receive-more-monkeypox-vax- doses-but-health-commissioner-says-we-need-to-keep-pushing

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