As Monkeypox Spread in New York, 300,000 Vaccine Doses Sat in Denmark
NEW YORK — On the Thursday before Pride Weekend last month, hundreds of men dropped what they were doing and raced to a city-run health clinic in Manhattan. Finally, more than a month after monkeypox appeared in the city, a vaccine was being made available to sexually active gay and bisexual...
My favorite part of the article:
Sergio Rodriguez, 39, a transgender queer man who lives in the East Village, said he tried to get vaccinated before Pride Weekend, but was turned away. He hooked up with a few people and, about a week later, began to feel abdominal pain, swollen lymph nodes and body aches. Lesions then spread across his body, and some made it excruciating to urinate.
“I’ve actively been trying to do things to support myself because I knew that I would be at high risk,” he said.
“It’s really frustrating,” he added, that the government “was not set up to adequately meet the demand.”
How's about not hooking up with multiple dudes when you know there's an extremely contagious disease out there in your community? Jesus Christ.
