SF News SF Health Department Urges Queer Community to Get Vaccinated Against Mpox Ahead of Pride As the summer and Pride season are upon us, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is urging everyone who wants to — but particularly men, trans people, and nonbinary people who have sex with men — to get the two-dose regimen of the mpox (aka monkeypox) vaccine.
SF News Mpox Cases on the Rise Again in SF, Health Department Warns The disease formerly known as monkeypox is making a troubling little comeback in SF, and while case counts are low, we’ve seen a nearly seven-fold increase in positive mpox cases in the last five weeks.
SF News SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.
SF News With Monkeypox All But Disappeared Locally, SF Will End the Public Health Emergency Next Week MPX (monkeypox) cases are still being recorded in the city of San Francisco, but the rate is down to less than one per day — and the Department of Public Health seems pleased.
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News San Francisco to Go Full Steam Ahead With Second Monkeypox Shots The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that everyone who got their first monkeypox shots more than 28 days prior can start getting their second doses next week.
SF News Monkeypox Infections On the Decline In SF the Last Three Weeks The number of new monkeypox infections has been steadily declining for three weeks in San Francisco, leading the city's health officer to say she's "cautiously optimistic" that the city has turned a corner on the outbreak.
SF News SF to Receive 1,600 More Monkeypox Vaccine Units; Clinics Will Switch to Intradermal Injection Technique San Francisco is expected to get 1,600 more monkeypox vaccines in the next distribution from the federal supply. To get this allotment, clinics will be using a transdermal injection technique, which requires only a fifth of the vaccine dose used in the subcutaneous method.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Hosting a Phone-In Town Hall on Monkeypox at 5 p.m. Tuesday Nearly 30% of all California monkeypox cases are right here in the City and County of San Francisco, and so our congressional rep and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing a phone town hall with a who’s-who of local public health figures tonight.
SF News Zuckerberg SF General Hospital Opens Its First Weekend Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic To vaccinate as many people against monkeypox as possible, the walk-in vaccine clinic at 1001 Potrero Avenue opened Saturday for its first weekend to immunize patients.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic Reopens at SF General The monkeypox vaccine supply has been refreshed in SF and the drop-in clinic is back open, state Sen. Scott Wiener is chairing a select committee hearing today on the crisis, and Hazie's is getting ready to open in Hayes Valley.
SF News Report: SF Has Largely Stopped Doing Contract Tracing for Monkeypox As the city now has nearly 450 confirmed monkeypox cases, we learn that the SFDPH is only contact tracing for a fraction of those cases, with one department email saying “Don’t want to say too much, or beg more questions.”
SF News [Updated] SF to Get 10,000 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses; Available Doses at SF General Out on Wednesday You can still get a monkeypox vaccine if you want or need one this week, either through a clinic appointment or at the drop-in clinic at SF General, but the doses from the latest federal allotment are likely to run out again before the end of the week.
SF News SF Officially Declares State of Emergency Over Monkeypox Mayor Breed officially issued a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak Thursday, as cases exploded over the month of July from barely over a dozen to now nearly 300 and rising.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Getting 4200 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses SF is getting more monkeypox vaccine later this week, a study by UCSF researchers finds that 80% of COVID cases are going unreported, and the Biden Administration has offered a prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Monkeypox Cases Hit 215 In San Francisco The number of confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox in SF hit 215 on Sunday up from just 16 four weeks ago, little kids aren't getting COVID vaccinations in large numbers, and an air quality advisory for the Bay Area has been extended through Wednesday due to Oak Fire smoke.
SF News New Data Shows Monkeypox Outbreak Disproportionately Impacts Latinx Communities in SF There are currently 197 recorded or suspected cases of monkeypox in San Francisco. And the most recent data about the spread of monkeypox shows that even though members of Latinx communities make up some 15% of SF's population, over 30% of all current monkeypox cases are within this group.
SF News SFDPH Prioritizing First-Dose Monkeypox Vaccinations; City Department Expected to Offer Second Doses After Supply Increases There are an estimated 197 cases of either confirmed or suspected monkeypox infections in SF. Thus far, the City has received 7,700 units of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine from the federal stockpile via CDPH — though some 35,000 doses have been requested to meet the need.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Monkeypox Cases Hit 141; Long Line Greets Reopened Vaccine Clinic SF's confirmed monkeypox cases now number 141, a long line started forming well before 8 a.m. today for the latest batch of vaccines at SF General, and SF school board member Ann Hsu is facing backlash for some racist comments about Black and brown students.
SF News Local LGBTQ Groups Protest Outside SF Federal Building Over Monkeypox Response Local leaders and members of several LGTBQ organizations gathered outside the Federal Building in SoMa on Monday to call on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to send more monkeypox vaccine to San Francisco.
SF News CDC Says More Monkeypox Vaccine Coming Next Week to San Francisco, Other Cities With Growing Cases After demand has soared for monkeypox vaccinations in the Bay Area and elsewhere, and as low existing supplies have been used up, the Centers for Disease Control assures us that more vaccine is coming, possibly by next week.
SF News As SF Monkeypox Cases Hit 60, SF AIDS Foundation Plans Virtual Town Hall, Mandelman Demands More Vaccines The monkeypox developments are coming in disturbingly quickly, so the SF AIDS Foundation is holding a virtual town hall tonight to unpack the new landscape, and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has had it with the CDC foot-dragging.
SF News 600 Monkeypox Vaccines Administered in San Francisco So Far, More Units Requested by SFDPH The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) reported it has administered 600 monkeypox vaccines to eligible residents who had close contact with someone who has monkeypox (suspected or confirmed) or working in proximity to the virus in a lab setting.
SF News Monkeypox Vaccine In Short Supply In SF as Hundreds of Potentially Exposed Pride Party-Goers Clamor For Shots San Francisco's queer community is following a trajectory similar to what unfolded a month ago in Berlin, with experts fearing that a wider outbreak of monkeypox could be afoot. But where are the vaccine supplies?
SF News [Update] Monkeypox Likely to Have Spread During SF Pride; 40 Total Cases In the City As of This Week As an outbreak of monkeypox infections grips the gay communities of Germany and the UK, there are increasing reports of cases here in the U.S. and in the Bay Area — also primarily among gay and bisexual men.