Chicago health officials will prioritize the first dose of the monkeypox vaccine and delay scheduling the second shot, the city’s top doctor said.
Letty Arreola gives Cory Hawkins, 35, a monkeypox vaccine shot at the Silver Room Block Party near Burnham Park in Chicago on July 17, 2022.
The city’s strategy follows other cities, such as San Francisco and New York City, that have chosen to use their limited vaccine supply to inject as many people as possible with first doses to offer the broadest measure of protection.Chicago health officials are targeting the most at-risk people for vaccines, including men who have sex with men at venues, with multiple or anonymous partners, or for money, Arwady said. Second doses will be scheduled when more vaccines become available, she said.
As monkeypox cases climb in Chicago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker calling on federal health officials to ramp up vaccination efforts“We simply do not have enough vaccines for all those who need it,” said David Ernesto Munar, president of LGBTQ-focused Howard Brown Health Center. The city can respond to the outbreak by “blasting information out” as the federal government gets more vaccines to epicenters like Chicago, said Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th, who also spoke at the town hall.
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