{"id":11573,"date":"2022-07-14T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2022-07-14T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T18:53:46","slug":"sf-without-monkeypox-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/sf-without-monkeypox-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"SF runs out of smallpox vaccine, more requested from federal government"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Bay City News<\/a><\/strong>
San Francisco public health officials said Wednesday they are running out of monkeypox vaccine and are urgently requesting additional vaccines from the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This 2003 electron microscopy (EM) image shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical specimen associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin-section image of a human skin sample. On the left were the oval-shaped mature virus particles, and on the right were the crescent-shaped and spherical immature virion particles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The city\u2019s Department of Public Health received 2,308 doses of the Jynneos vaccine last week from federal supplies and distributed them to sites around the city, but many of those sites were already running out, and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital had just 50 doses left as of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City officials said the monkeypox clinic will have to close once the last doses are administered and will remain closed until more vaccines arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Wednesday, there have been 68 probable and confirmed cases of monkeypox in San Francisco. The virus is spread through skin-to-skin contact or bodily fluids, and symptoms can include a rash or sores on the skin, as well as flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public health officials noted that many members of the LGBTQ community in particular have sought out the vaccine. State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, criticized the federal government\u2019s response to monkeypox, saying that \u201cfailure to control this outbreak will result in intense, and completely unnecessary, misery for many people, particularly gay and bisexual men.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiener cited reports of a million doses stored at a facility in Denmark because the U.S. failed to conduct a timely inspection of the site and its certification expired as an example of the federal government's inadequate response to the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need a tremendous amount of additional vaccine doses, and we need them immediately. The federal government\u2019s failures threaten to deeply harm our community. Once we get through this emergency, we need accountability for these failures \u2014 failures that put people\u2019s lives and lives at risk,\u201d Wiener said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about San Francisco's response to monkeypox, including vaccine locations, health guidance, and current case counts, can be found at https:\/\/sf.gov\/information\/monkeypox<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Smallpox, experts report on the disease that has gained prominence in the U.S.<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Por Bay City NewsFuncionarios de salud p\u00fablica de San Francisco dijeron este mi\u00e9rcoles que se est\u00e1n quedando sin vacunas contra viruela s\u00edmica, y est\u00e1n solicitando urgentemente vacunas adicionales del gobierno federal. El Departamento de Salud P\u00fablica de la ciudad recibi\u00f3 dos mil 308 dosis de la vacuna Jynneos la semana pasada de suministros federales y […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-health","9":"category-san-francisco"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11576,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/11576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}