'We continue to work on adding additional community partners to make our limited vaccine supply available more widely, as we also continue to advocate for more vaccine doses for our county,' a spokesman for Riverside University Health System said.
According to health officials, the vaccine can prevent infection if given before or shortly after exposure to the virus.
The county is also working with community partners to expand the eligibility for the two-shot vaccines to include at-risk individuals, and to set up treatment sites with Tecovirimat -- an antiviral medication used to treat orthopoxvirus infections such as monkeypox. Ruiz claimed that"California's vaccine distribution strategy continues to overlook the Palm Springs area."
Now that it has been declared a public health emergency, will the "sluggish" response to monkeypox improve? "We still have woefully inadequate vaccine supplies for the gay male community," which has hit hard by the disease, says Dr. Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine at UC San Francisco. She is hopeful that with enough shots, the virus will be contained.
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