Health & Fitness
Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage Slows Bay Area Health Officials' Response
"A pay-to-play, fast-pass experience in my opinion, which is frankly wrong and absurd given that it is a public health crisis," he said.
July 15, 2022
Bay Area health leaders said Thursday they share the frustration of people who waited in line for hours trying to get doses of the monkeypox vaccine.
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"I'm happy I got it and I don't have to worry about it now," said Wyatt Robertson, a San Francisco resident who got his first dose Wednesday. "I think that, because there was a lack of information about it, people were a lot more scared about it."
Robertson was among hundreds who went to Berkeley for a shot of the vaccine at Steamworks which hosted a pop-up clinic in partnership with the city's health department.
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