Despite Latinx community making up 15% of San Francisco's population, the latest monkeypox data shows that 30% of infections in the city are among this group.
ABC7 talked to Will Hutcheson, a Brooklyn fitness coach with a confirmed case of monkeypox,
"In public health crisis we need to be ensuring that we are using the appropriate equitable lens to ensure that information, education and awareness is available in multiple languages," said Tyler TerMeer, PhD, chief executive officer at San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Their waitlist for the monkeypox vaccine is now over 5,000 people. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman criticized the government's response to the crisis comparing it to the delayed response to the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.
"They seem to have done the bare minimum, being dragged each step of the way in what turned out to be a woefully inadequate response where we have significant community spread," said Supervisor Mandelman. Latest San Francisco Department of Public Health data says:"On July 22, 2022, SFDPH reported an additional 56 monkeypox cases, bringing the total number of cases in San Francisco residents to 197. These include both probable cases, as well as cases that are confirmed as monkeypox through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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