Bay Area health leaders said Thursday they share the frustration of people who waited in line for hours trying to get doses of the monkeypox vaccine.
"I'm happy I got it and I don't have to worry about it now," said Wyatt Robertson, a San Francisco resident who got his first dose Wednesday."I think that, because there was a lack of information about it, people were a lot more scared about it."
The city of Berkeley health department said it was still calculating how many vaccine doses were given on Wednesday and that it would not know the amount of doses available next Wednesday or at future clinics until the state's health department divulges how much vaccine it can allocate based on its supply from the federal government.
While Wong and others shared concerns about customers of Steamworks getting preference on Wednesday over those who didn't pay, the city of Berkeley could not confirm if that happened at the clinic. A Steamworks employee told KPIX there was some confusion but no preference to their customers. They had two separate lines next to each other, one for people checking into the club and another for vaccinations. Staff say they gave out 500 doses by the end of the day.
"There is, in this moment, most definitely a federal public health failure to be responsive and to be prepared for what was a very foreseeable outbreak of monkeypox," TerMeer said. The mayor's office said in a statement Thursday that, while the majority of monkeypox cases are affecting LGBT people, the disease is highly transmissible and can infect anyone. The city's top priority is distributing vaccines fast and efficiently citywide, the statement went on to say.
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