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   New York City will receive another 14,500 doses of the monkeypox   
   vaccine from the federal government this week, the health   
   department said on Monday.   
      
   The department also distributed the remaining 2,500 doses from   
   the last shipment at New York City’s temporary vaccine clinics   
   at the Central Harlem Sexual Health Clinic, the Chelsea Sexual   
   Health Clinic and the Corona Sexual Health Clinic, officials   
   said. The next wave of new appointments will go online Tuesday   
   at 1 p.m., on the health department’s website. Half of those   
   will be available online, and the other through direct referrals   
   from providers for higher risk New Yorkers.   
      
   The additional doses come as the city health department faces   
   growing criticism about its handling of the vaccination   
   distribution so far. When the first 1,000 doses arrived last   
   month, appointments were gone within hours. Then last week,   
   another shipment of 6,000 doses was met with technical   
   difficulties that caused an appointment scheduling nightmare for   
   some hoping to schedule their shot. When they were finally   
   online, they were also gone within minutes.   
      
   “This is far, far too little,” Manhattan Borough President Mark   
   Levine said in a tweet after the technical glitch last week. “We   
   need the feds to dramatically up our allocation ASAP.”   
      
   New York City has become the epicenter for the virus. Cases have   
   doubled in a week, with 223 positive orthopoxvirus cases as of   
   Monday, nearly 25% of the cases in the U.S., which has a total   
   of 866 cases. Health officials have said that due to the delay   
   in testing, numbers are likely much higher.   
      
   The state total as of Monday was at 238 cases, the city health   
   department said, including seven in Westchester, four in   
   Suffolk, one in Nassau, one in Sullivan, one in Chemung and one   
   in Rockland counties.   
      
   To address increasing concerns about the outbreak, city Health   
   Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan and state Health Commissioner Dr.   
   Mary Bassett delivered a briefing at a town hall on Monday.   
      
   “I think we need to really power up our vaccination supply if   
   we're going to start to make inroads. And we're grateful to the   
   partnership we've had from the federal government for that to   
   date, but we need to keep pushing,” Vasan said.   
      
   Health officials have gone to great lengths to stress in their   
   messaging that anyone can get monkeypox, but that the current   
   outbreak started, and is spreading primarily, amongst gay and   
   bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men. For that   
   reason, that’s the population currently being targeted for   
   vaccination.   
      
   “By now, we should have learned our lesson that things don't   
   stay where they start, and we need everyone to be alert,”   
   Bassett said, referencing the ongoing efforts to curb the COVID-   
   19 pandemic. “But right now, the overwhelming majority of cases   
   are currently men who have sex with men and it's particularly   
   important that we ensure that people know what they can do to   
   protect themselves and this community.”   
      
   Bassett said the U.S. was caught flat-footed and unprepared when   
   the virus started spreading. According to Bassett, the federal   
   government stockpiled the vaccine out of a concern that smallpox   
   would be used as a bioterrorism threat, failing to consider the   
   spread of monkeypox.   
      
   “The supplies were never never envisioned this, despite the fact   
   that monkey pox was endemic in eight or more countries in West   
   and Central Africa,” Bassett said. “Part of why we're here is   
   because we’ve overlook the fact that we are indeed in a global   
   world, that monkeypox could come and affect us all, and that’s a   
   lesson that we seem to need to keep learning as a nation.”   
      
   New York City Mayor Eric Adams penned a letter to President Joe   
   Biden this week with an urgent call for more doses of the   
   vaccine, the New York Post reported.   
      
   “While we appreciate the approximately 7,000 vaccine doses that   
      
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