Free monkeypox vaccine clinic offered at Sacramento LBGT Community Center
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center will host a free monkeypox vaccine clinic on Monday.
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The Sacramento LGBT Community Center will host a free monkeypox vaccine clinic on Monday.
The clinic comes as demand for the vaccine is rising across the country.
Dr. Ashish Jha told "CBS Mornings" that declaring a public health emergency for the monkeypox outbreak will speed up vaccinations and help health officials obtain data to stop the spread of the disease.
The announcement frees up federal funding and resources to help fight back the virus.
Many technicians at Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics, two of the largest commercial labs in the US, have been refusing to draw blood from patients who might have monkeypox, CNN has learned.
The Biden administration has faced criticism over the pace of vaccine availability for monkeypox.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak.
There have been 52 reported cases of monkeypox in Sacramento.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak. The declaration will help strengthen California's vaccination efforts and outreach.
California has reported nearly 800 probable and confirmed cases of more than 3,000 identified in the U.S. Only New York has reported more cases.
A second case of monkeypox has now been confirmed in Stanislaus County.
A project monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in the Bay Area via wastewater is now expanding its efforts to also watch the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
San Francisco officials on Thursday announced they are declaring a public health emergency over monkeypox that will go into effect on August 1.
A CBS13 viewer is sharing his journey of how it took him five days to get his test results back.
Sacramento County on Thursday confirmed more probable cases of monkeypox, which brings the total of confirmed or suspected cases to 38 within the county.
Sacramento County is now up to 38 confirmed or suspected cases as of Thursday.
Health officials say the patient likely contracted the virus while traveling.
The new case was announced on Wednesday.
Monkeypox spreads when someone has direct contact with a person's infectious rash, scabs or body fluids.
Napa County health officials announced Tuesday that they are investigating the county's first probable case of monkeypox.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. The decision was announced Saturday morning after WHO convened its second emergency committee on the issue on Thursday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.
Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
Meanwhile, the state has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for doses of the monkeypox vaccine.
The first confirmed case of monkeypox has now been identified in Solano County.
