Soaring demand for the vaccine has caused the appointment system to crash in .
City health officials acknowledged the frustration over the limited supply of the jab and vowed to build a ‘stable appointment infrastructure’ as the supply increases.
Infections now exceed 1,000 from the growing outbreak in the U.S. Most patients experience only fever, body aches, chills and fatigue.
Vaccines against monkeypox are being offered to men who have sex with men who have multiple sexual partners in a week
They are also available to any close contacts of suspected or confirmed monkeypox cases
People with more serious illness may develop a rash and lesions on the face and hands that can spread to other parts of the body.
Vaccine shortages have added to anxiety around the virus. Health officials say anyone can get monkeypox, but most cases in the U.S. have been men who have sex with men.
In San Francisco, where there have only been 68 confirmed cases, residents queued up for blocks to get their jabs.
San Francisco residents queued up for blocks to get their jabs. The city has only seen 68 confirmed cases
Only 50 doses out of 2,308 remain and city officials worry that the outbreak could get worse if the federal government doesn’t provide more. Pictured: San Francisco on Tuesday
The Golden Gate City’s health department received 2,308 doses from the federal government last week and only 50 remain at the Zukerberg San Francisco General hospital monkeypox clinic, according to their Twitter post.
They have not set up an appointment website, taking residents on a first come, first serve basis.
Four men wait in line for the vaccine at Wilton Manors in Florida as the jab was rolled out in the Sunshine State
They will be forced to turn people away if more doesn’t arrive soon, city officials warned on Tuesday.
So far, health officials have recorded 1,700 doses of the vaccine have been administered.
‘It is extremely infuriating that our federal government has once again failed in their response, especially after a two-year public health crisis,’ Ande Stone, สล็อตเว็บตรงpg – xtx788.com – a senior community manager with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Scientists warn that anyone who is in close physical contact with someone who has monkeypox or their clothing or bedsheets is at risk of infection, regardless of their sexual orientation.
‘After COVID, this should have been easy,’ said Daniel Ross, 25, a Harlem man who was one of the many who sought to make an appointment Tuesday.
‘I kept refreshing and refreshing. … I was frustrated.’
Ross soon gave up on the appointment portal, which went down minutes after it went live.
New York City is the first metropolis to record more than 100 cases of the virus in America
‘It’s going to haunt me,’ he said. ‘Me being a gay man who lives in Harlem, there’s a lot of anxiety. I had four mosquito bites, and I was thinking what if this isn’t a mosquito bite?’
The city contracted with the company Affiliated Physicians to run its online appointment servic
