New Yorkers turn up in large numbers to get monkeypox vaccine
Authored By Manas Joshi
Published: Jul 18, 2022, 01:23 IST | Updated: Jul 18, 2022, 01:23 IST
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Inadequate doses
Currently New York does not have enough monkeypox vaccine doses. For a city of more than 8 million only 9200 slots were made available initially.
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Slots or hot cakes?
As soon as the slots were available on New York's website, people rushed to book appointments. 9200 slots were over in mere 7 minutes.
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Increase in infections
There has been increase in number of monkeypox cases in the city in last week. Between Monday and Friday (July 4-July 8) 200 new infections were found.
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Danger to all
Monkeypox can spread through close physical contact and can infect anyone.
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Vaccine currently to a section of society
The Jynneos vaccine is currently reserved for men who have sex with men. This section of society has seen a large number of infections.
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