Local Health Officials to Feds: Where’s the Rest of Our Monkeypox Vaccine? [Los Deviles]

KHN ^ | August 18, 2022 | Jackie Fortiér

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Los Angeles County health officials found out Tuesday that the federal government slashed the county’s requested and expected monkeypox vaccine allotment by 60%.

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Last week, the FDA told health care providers to split a one-dose vial of the monkeypox vaccine into five doses. The shift was good news for vaccine-strapped cities throughout the country because it meant what little supply is available could be stretched much further.

But then L.A. County and other cities and states were told that they would get significantly less vaccine than they’d requested. L.A. County expected to receive 14,000 vials of the vaccine this week, which would have yielded, when split, 70,000 doses for eligible residents. Instead, the county will receive 5,600 vials, which will yield only 28,000 doses.

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Gimme, gimme gimme.

Should be California's slogan.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Isn't it worse to partially vaccinate someone? Doesn't it increase the chance that some of the virus/bacteria will mutate into a form that is immune to the vaccine?

Isn't this what happens when tuberculosis patients quit their drug regimens before completion?

[BenLurkin]

Should have quarantined the sodomites back when AIDS first appeared. The world would be a safer place today.

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Probably. But the “medical community” has our back, don’t you know...

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Why not, at the very least, shut down the various hookup apps that sodomites use exhaustively to find new, nameless sexual partners in every corner of the world? Why would that be out of the question for a few weeks or months?

But no...

[G Larry]

The “vaccine” is resides in your SELF-CONTROL!!!

[Tommy Revolts]

Unlike Covid, I can see this shit spreading to the promiscuous, homeless, etc.
Somehow Covid never wiped out the homeless.

Any way, I had wondered how they were able to get a vaccine out
so quickly for the monkeypox. It's the same vaccine that
treats smallpox.

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Not the same vaccine as smallpox, but very similar.

[COBOL2Java]

Probably. But the “medical community” has our back, don’t you know...

Of course they do!

(Do I really need a sarc tag?)

[Chode]

the democRAT salute...

[RetiredTexasVet]

Guess the county will have to select the 3 out 5 queers, freaks, or perverts they value most to give the shots to.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Should have quarantined the sodomites back when AIDS first appeared. The world would be a safer place today.””

Remember how that was handled? It wasn’t even allowed to speak about it....isolation? Don’t even think of it. We think what we see/hear today is bad. At least we’re hearing about it....

[CJ Wolf]

Does this vaccine actually work? I mean if they get the vax and so they can continue risky behavior and still get it/spread it wouldn’t that just make it worse.

[Libloather]

Tell those Los Angeles County health officials to stick it up their... Hold on. That won’t work at all.