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   After receiving just under 6,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine from   
   the federal government, the city’s Department of Health and   
   Mental Hygiene will open two city sexual health clinics on July   
   7 to gay and bisexual men, other men who have sex with men, and   
   non-binary, transgender, and gender non-conforming people who   
   are 18 or older and have had multiple or anonymous sex partners   
   in the past 14 days. The latest available vaccine appointments,   
   however, were quickly reserved on July 6 and technical   
   difficulties affected the sign-up website.   
      
   “Providing vaccine for New Yorkers at highest risk of   
   transmission will ensure more New Yorkers are protected against   
   monkeypox,” Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s health commissioner,   
   said in a statement announcing the clinics. “Thank you to our   
   federal partners for providing the necessary support we need to   
   curb transmission and keep New Yorkers safe. The city will   
   continue to work with the federal government to secure   
   additional doses.”   
      
   The Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic, which is at West 28th Street   
   and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, and the Central Harlem Sexual   
   Health Clinic, which is at West 136th Street and Fifth Avenue in   
   Manhattan, began accepting appointments through the health   
   department’s website on July 6. A third city clinic, the Corona   
   Sexual Health Clinic, is expected to open for vaccinations later   
   this month.   
      
   There is high demand for the vaccine and appointments. Multiple   
   media reports said that the July 6 rollout of appointments was   
   hampered by vendor error or some unknown glitch. One possible   
   indication of the demand may have come late in the day when   
   available appointments were announced by the department on   
   Twitter at 6:11 pm, and at 6:23 pm, the department tweeted   
   “UPDATE: There are no monkeypox vaccine appointments currently   
   available. We will update when more appointments are available   
   early next week.”   
      
   “A sincere apology for the technical difficulties our vendor   
   @medrite_ experienced with today’s monkeypox vaccine appointment   
   rollout,” Vasan said in a Twitter thread post on July 6. “We   
   especially understand that our LGBTQ+ friends and neighbors have   
   historically been denied affirming, supportive health care. We   
   recognize the historical context of this response. Equity has   
   been our north star, and we pledge it will remain that way. We   
   especially thank community members and leaders for their   
   partnership. Beyond tech issues, the demand for this vaccine is   
   high and there isn’t enough vaccine supply in the US. Right now   
   all appointments have been booked. WE will make additional   
   appointments available early next week.”   
      
   The health department received its first 1,000 vaccine doses on   
   June 23 and all of those doses were administered over four eight-   
   hour days at the Chelsea clinic. On June 28, the department   
   reported that there were 55 suspected monkeypox cases in New   
   York City. As of July 6, there are 119 suspected monkeypox cases   
   in the city. Most of the suspected cases have been among men who   
   have sex with men. They have generally been mild cases and most   
   have recovered.   
      
   On June 28, the federal Centers for Disease Control and   
   Prevention (CDC) reported 306 confirmed monkeypox cases in 27   
   states and the nation’s capital. On July 6, the CDC reported 605   
   cases in 34 states and the nation’s capital. The federal health   
   agency continues to say that “early data suggest that gay,   
   bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up a high   
   number of cases.”   
      
   There are two vaccines for monkeypox — ACAM200 and Jynneos. Both   
   were originally developed to prevent smallpox and only Jynneos   
   is approved as a vaccine for monkeypox. ACAM200 is less   
   effective against monkeypox and has more serious side effects.   
   The city is using Jynneos exclusively. The vaccine is   
   administered in two doses 28 days apart. Immunity to monkeypox   
   begins roughly two weeks after the second shot.   
      
      
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