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![SF Health Officer Susan Philip, MD, Director of Health for the City and County of San Francisco Grant Colfax, MD, and Mayor London Breed during press conference as San Francisco declares a public health state of emergency in response to growing spread of monkeypox cases in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2022.]()
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![Nurse Gabriela Solis prepares a dose of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a site in East Los Angeles.]()
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![Pharmacist Michelle Huynh (left) prepares a monkeypox vaccine shot for Eric Tooley in San Jose. Bay Area providers have started using a new method that stretches the vaccine to allow more doses.]()
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![A man gets a monkeypox vaccination at a clinic in Newark, N.J. San Francisco officials say not many people infected with monkeypox are willing to reveal their close contacts, but if they do, city contact tracers will try to reach them.]()
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![People line up for monkeypox vaccinations at San Francisco General Hospital. The Biden administration approved a new injection method that uses less vaccine in order to stretch out supply, but California officials say it will take time to train people and implement the new method.]()
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![This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade.]()
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![A sheriffs deputy keeps an eye on female inmates from a central platform during a tour of County Jail #2 in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, January 30, 2017. The county jail has reported its first case of monkeypox in an inmate.]()
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![Shyan Kautzer and parents, Steve and Tammy, with the prairie dog that infected the child and mother with monkeypox in 2003.]()
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![Lydia Gaston (left) and Jo Koy in “Easter Sunday.”]()
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![FILE - Jonathan Parducho, a pharmacist, removes a tray of vials of of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox from a box containing 20 doses, in the vaccine hub at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, July 29, 2022, in San Francisco.]()
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![Pharmacist Jonathan Parducho opens a freezer transport box containing the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Friday, July 29, 2022.]()
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![People stand in long lines to receive the monkeypox vaccine at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, July 12, 2022.]()
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‘Absolutely ridiculous’: LGBT leaders vent frustration over lack of access to monkeypox antiviral...
![Pharmacist Jonathan Parducho opens a freezer transport box containing the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Friday, July 29, 2022.]()
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![Zach Wu, an East Bay wastewater control inspector, transfers sewer water into a bottle that will be sent to a lab for coronavirus testing in Oakland in 2020.]()
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![Health care and LGBTQ rights activists protest outside of the San Francisco Federal Building, seeking an increase in monkeypox vaccine and treatment supplies as the outbreak spreads.]()
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![It took multiple telehealth appointments and trips to urgent care clinics and emergency rooms before an infectious disease specialist diagnosed Kevin Kwong with monkeypox.]()
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![Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen in the vaccine hub at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on July 29, 2022.]()
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![Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen in the vaccine hub at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on July 29, 2022.]()
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![Vials of single doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox are seen in the vaccine hub at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on July 29, 2022.]()
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![A demonstrator holds a stack of cards as people protest outside the San Francisco Federal Building to demand that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services accelerate the distribution of the monkeypox vaccine on July 18, 2022, in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![Booths are spaced apart at the annual Up Your Alley leather and fetish fair in San Francisco.]()
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![Kyle Planck, 26, who has recovered from monkeypox, shows Tecovirimat capsules, which is used for monkeypox treatment.]()
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![Pole-dancing instructor Nicole Rems performs at the annual Folsom Street Fair, celebrating the bondage and leather subculture.]()
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![Michael Rouppet, a member Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, holds a sign reading “Increase Vaccine Production” as he and members of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club demonstrate outside the San Francisco Federal Building on Monday, July 18, 2022 to demand that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services steps up the supply distribution of the monkeypox vaccine in San Francisco.]()
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![Pharmacist Jonathan Parducho opens a freezer transport box containing the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Friday, July 29, 2022.]()
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![Matthew Sharp (right) of Oakland, a long-term HIV survivor and member of the HIV Advocacy Network and Ernesto Cuellar (left) of San Francisco, member of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club and Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, prepare signs before demonstrating outside the San Francisco Federal Building to demand that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services increase distribution of the monkeypox vaccine on July 18, 2022, in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![A person exits the Strut center in the Castro district in San Francisco County, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2022. San Francisco declared a state of emergency over monkeypox.]()
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![Tom Temprano, speaks during a protest with members of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and others demonstrating outside the San Francisco Federal Building to demand that the United States Department of Health & Human Services step up the supply distribution of the Monkeypox vaccine on Monday, July 18, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![Tom Lappin enters the Strut center in the Castro district in San Francisco County, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2022. San Francisco declared a state of emergency over monkeypox.]()
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![Mayor London Breed speaks as a press conference in San Francisco on Thursday, July 28, 2022 where she declared a public health state of emergency in response to the growth of monkeypox cases.]()
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![Brian Springfield of San Francisco holds a sign advocating for the Jynneo’s monkeypox vaccine as he demonstrates outside the San Francisco Federal Building on Monday, July 18, 2022.]()
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![Brian Springfield of San Francisco holds a sign advocating for the Jynneo’s monkeypox vaccine as he demonstrates outside the San Francisco Federal Building on Monday, July 18, 2022.]()
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![Brian Springfield of San Francisco holds a sign reading “Monkeypox Vaccine Access Now” as he demonstrates with members of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and others outside the San Francisco Federal Building on Monday, July 18, 2022 to demand that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services steps up the supply distribution of the monkeypox vaccine.]()
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![Tom Temprano, speaks during a protest with members of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and others demonstrating outside the San Francisco Federal Building to demand that the United States Department of Health & Human Services step up the supply distribution of the Monkeypox vaccine on Monday, July 18, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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Monkeypox in San Francisco: Protesters blast federal government for response to ‘avoidable’ outbreak
![Senator Scott Wiener speaks as members of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and others demonstrate outside the San Francisco Federal Building to demand that the United States Department of Health & Human Services step up the supply distribution of the Monkeypox vaccine on Monday, July 18, 2022 in San Francisco, Calif.]()
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![The first voter of the morning at San Francisco City Hall fills out his ballot on June 7, 2022.]()
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![Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of Health, listens at a City Hall press conference in San Francisco on July 12, 2022. The event was called to push for a more aggressive response to the monkeypox outbreak.]()
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![Lab technician Justin Paluba works as a team of scientists refine and optimize a rapid and low-cost new technique to test wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in Hildebrand Hall on the UC campus in Berkeley on Oct. 29, 2020.]()
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![People stand in long lines to receive the monkeypox vaccine at San Francisco General Hospital on July 12, 2022.]()
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![District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks during a press conference at City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. He called for a more aggressive monkeypox vaccination campaign.]()
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![Vaccination after monkeypox exposure can help significantly slow the spread of the virus and protect those who are most vulnerable, says White House COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha.]()
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![Pressure is mounting on Bay Area health officials to make monkeypox vaccines, such as Jynneos, more widely available to limit the spread of the virus.]()
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![A medical laboratory technician inactivates suspected monkeypox samples to be PCR tested.]()
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![Spectators line the streets and cheer during the Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, June 26, 2022.]()
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![A digitally-colorized electron microscopic image depicting a monkeypox virion (virus particle) obtained from a clinical sample associated with a 2003 prairie dog outbreak, published June 6, 2022. A human outbreak is at a “critical stage” in the Bay Area, but there are precautions and preventive steps people can take against catching the virus.]()
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![FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. British health officials reported 73 more monkeypox cases on Monday, June 6, 2022, raising the total to more than 300 across the country. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)]()
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![A skin lession caused by monkeypox virus is shown in 2003 on the hand of a child who was bitten by a prairie dog in Wisconsin.]()
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![This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. The World Health Organization said Friday, May 27, 2022, that nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)]()
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![This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. The World Health Organization said Friday, May 27, 2022, that nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)]()
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![Schyan Kautzer, 3, of Dorchester, Wis. shows her right index finger Monday June 9, 2003, where she was bitten by a pet prairie dog infected with monkeypox. Schyan Kautzer was the first case of the virus identified. The quarantine of the Kautzer home and five-acre hobby farm was ordered last Friday.]()
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![FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Israeli authorities said late Saturday, May 21, 2022, they have detected the country's first case of monkeypox in a man who returned from abroad and were looking into other suspected cases. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)]()
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![This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)]()
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![This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin. Monkeypox, which rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days.]()
