'The Department of Public Health is adapting its monkeypox vaccination strategy to deal with limited vaccine ability.' | aarondgettinger
CDPH is therefore vaccinating anyone who has close physical contact with someone or an intimate partner who was diagnosed with monkeypox; and any man who has sex with men who has intimate or sexual contact with other men in a social or sexual venue, who has given or received money or other goods or services in exchange for sex, or who has intimate or sexual contact with multiple or anonymous partners.
“This feels like we’re going through a cycle, dealing with a new disease that people are experiencing here, often for the first time, and like we’ve been here before,” said Alderperson Maria Hadden , who is lesbian, at a July 21 Howard Brown town hall. Steven Glass, Howard Brown’s chief operating officer, said the clinical network was about three weeks out from being able to schedule appointments and is examining ways to expand hours, days, and locations where vaccines can be offered.
On Halsted Street in Lakeview East, Gabriel Cralley, 31, said he has an appointment for his monkeypox vaccine but that getting it was “a nightmare.” He was trying to move up his vaccine appointment, scheduled in early August at Howard Brown, as his primary care provider also had a backlog in distributing vaccines.
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