As the number of monkeypox cases in the Bay Area grows and as people wait for vaccines, calls are growing urgent for a more aggressive response to the outbreak.
A selfie of Marke Bieschke is not from April 2021 waiting in line for the COVID-19 shot, it's from Wednesday in Berkeley waiting for a dose of monkeypox vaccine.Demand for the monkeypox vaccine has far outstripped the supply.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF, says there needs to be a push by the federal government to get more doses into arms right now. Among the reasons for urgency, the long incubation period of monkeypox, where a person can be infected, but symptom-free. Symptoms which can be squashed if vaccinations are given, even to the infected.
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