NY Gov. Kathy Hochul declared monkeypox a “State Disaster Emergency” on Friday. 'More than one in four monkeypox cases in this country are in New York state, and we need to utilize every tool in our arsenal as we respond,” Hochul said in a statement.
The announcement comes just one day after state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett gave the outbreak yet another scary-sounding title. She called it an “That funding is sorely needed. New York City’shave been decimated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with just half fully open. And while monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection, the clinics are a vital resource for the city’s LGBTQ community, which has been disproportionately affected by the current outbreak.
The good news is that New York is getting a new influx of monkeypox vaccines, which have been in short supply since the outbreak began. Hochul announced earlier this week that the federal government is giving the state 110,000 more doses, just under three-quarters of which will be distributed in New York City. The vaccine doses will be distributed over the next four to six weeks.
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