Monkeypox

San Francisco will receive another 1,600 vials of monkeypox vaccine in the coming days, making some 8,000 doses available to high-risk residents, the city’s public health department said Monday.

Contra Costa County residents who are at high risk for monkeypox can now schedule a vaccination appointment online through the county’s public health department.

San Francisco is continuing efforts to get more people vaccinated for monkeypox, expanding the hours at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital vaccine clinic. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

San Francisco is expanding hours at the Zuckerberg San Francisco walk-in monkeypox clinic. The clinic will now be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday dependent on supply.

San Francisco is continuing efforts to get more people vaccinated for monkeypox, as health officials announced Monday they are expanding hours at the Zuckerberg San Francisco walk-in vaccine clinic.

As the U.S. surpasses 10,000 monkeypox cases, Bay Area tech company Karius is touting its Stanford-developed blood-testing technology that it says can limit the spread.

Backed by a slew of public health leaders and politicians on the state and local level, State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, led the first meeting of the California Legislature’s new Senate Select Committee on Monkeypox on Tuesday afternoon.

There are 31 confirmed cases of monkeypox in Contra Costa County, with another 13 suspected cases, health officials told the county board of supervisors Tuesday.

U.S. health officials on Tuesday authorized a plan to stretch the nation’s limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by giving people just one-fifth the usual dose, citing research suggesting that the reduced amount is about as effective.

The feds have taken the first steps to stretch the current monkeypox vaccine supply, cutting the acceptable dose down to one-fifth the normal dose for each patient. Sergio Quintana reports.

The walk-in clinic at San Francisco General will reopen Tuesday through Saturday.

San Francisco is reopening it’s walk-in monkeypox clinic this week.

Activists are calling on local health authorities for more testing, treatment and vaccines amid the monkeypox outbreak in a rally planned on Monday.