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Matt Tracy reports at Gay City News:
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced that 63,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine have been administered in the city, but officials are also pointing to racial disparities and vowing to dole out $5 million to community groups to address inequities in the next phase of the vaccine rollout.
Of note, Black New Yorkers have only accounted for 12% of doses administered so far, despite making up 31% of the population eligible to be vaccinated, representing the only listed group within the race/ethnicity category that has not matched its proportion of the population in vaccine distribution in New York.
The New York Times reports:
Public health experts and activists were particularly dismayed that appointments for the monkeypox vaccine had been doled out largely on a first-come, first-serve basis, just as they were in an early phase of the Covid vaccine drive.
Public health experts say that has meant that vaccine recipients have tended to be whiter and wealthier than other eligible New Yorkers because they are more likely to have flexible schedules, enabling them to spend the hours it can take to find a vaccine appointment.
“We went back to vaccine cattle calls — everyone come — even though we know that if we do broad-based, top-down, no-nuance messaging, it is not going to reach everyone who needs it,” said Matthew Rose, a Black H.I.V. and social justice activist.
As of yesterday, NYC has seen 2548 cases. 
.@nycHealthy announced that 63,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine have been administered in NYC, but officials are also pointing to racial disparities and vowing to dole out $5 million to community groups to address inequities. https://t.co/2PSFdGJBBz
— Gay City News (@GayCityNews) August 18, 2022