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New York City’s ABC affiliate reports:
Thousands of doses of Monkeypox vaccines have arrived in New York City, and appointments were immediately filled. The city’s contractor opened the vaccine website prematurely Wednesday and the appointments filled up, then they released more, and those appointments quickly booked up as well.
The pop up site is opening up inside the Central Harlem Sexual Health Clinic on Fifth Avenue and the city is also re-opening another location at their clinic in Chelsea. That one is booked up as well. The city says they just received a shipment of 6,000 doses but they’re all accounted for.
Last month, there were long lines at the pop up clinic in Chelsea. Even though anyone can get monkeypox, right now the vaccine is only available to men who have sex with other men over the age of 18.
New York City’s NBC affiliate reports:
The health department is expected to expound Thursday upon its just-revealed Phase 1 strategy to deploy the coveted vaccine to the most at-risk New Yorkers. It comes a day after the city received a fresh batch of 6,000 monkeypox vaccine doses and pledged to open more appointments, which had been futile pending the arrival of more vials.
An “unfortunate glitch,” though, made the appointments available prematurely, prompting a flood of confusion and a flurry of apologies from city health officials as they worked to correct the problem.
“Vaccine supply is currently low. Appointments will be made available on a rolling basis and based on available supply,” an announcement on the city health website reads. JYNNEOS is the FDA-approved monkeypox vaccine, but the United States supply is limited right now, despite some reserves being released from the federal stockpile.