Rise in infections come as vaccine supply runs short
Monkeypox infections are steadily rising in much of the Bay Area, with nearly 100 cases diagnosed among six counties in the region as of Wednesday, mirroring a national trend as the vaccine supply to combat the growing global outbreak remains critically low.
San Francisco has 68 reported infections, while Alameda County currently has 17 and Santa Clara County reported nine cases Wednesday — a jump from the two announced last week. Marin, Contra Costa — which reported its first case Tuesday — and San Mateo remain in the low single digits. Health officials are currently grouping infections as both probable and confirmed.
Monkeypox, a cousin of smallpox, is much less transmissible than COVID — and hospitalization is also unlikely, Han said. Of the nine individuals with the virus in Santa Clara County, one was hospitalized, and their symptoms improved greatly after the antiviral tecovirimat was provided. San Francisco officials say that doses of JYNNEOS, one of two vaccines available to prevent infection, are running “extremely” low and have “urgently requested” additional supplies from the federal government. Last week, the city’s health department distributed over 2,000 doses of the vaccine to city clinics and hospitals and has requested an additional 35,000. S.F.
“Once we move past this emergency, we need accountability for these failures — failures that put people’s lives and health in jeopardy,” said Weiner, a fierce advocate for the region’s LGBTQ community. “The monkeypox response by the federal government, and more specifically the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, is the reflection you get when you underfund decades of public health,” he said. “It is not surprising but very disappointing. There’s no one person or one institution to blame.”
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