Three pop-up mass monkeypox vaccination sites will open to the public in NYC on Sunday, but the demand for the vaccine is far greater than the supply. alecia__reid spoke with the Bronx borough president, who's calling for more to be done.
While more than 50 percent of cases are currently in Manhattan, Gibson says that can change in an instant.
"Every day more people don't get access to the vaccine, the number of cases will increase. We've seen that last week, every day there were more numbers of positive cases," she said."We need resources out here in the Bronx to be able to combat and detect monkeypox before it becomes a problem because as far as I'm concerned, the rate is insane," one man said.
"More people here need it than ever because the fact that you don't have the knowledge for it is so much more dangerous," another man said.In addition to the 28,000 vaccine doses already sent to the state, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday night announced another 32,000 heading to New York next week. Gibson says she will be meeting health professionals and groups from the community on Monday to talk about equitable distribution of the monkeypox vaccine, and she will be at the pop-up vaccination site in the Bronx on Sunday.
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