Miami-Dade accepting monkeypox vaccine appointments after receiving limited supply

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – South Florida leads the state in variety of constructive monkeypox instances.

On Tuesday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava introduced that the county could be taking motion.

In accordance with a launch from the mayor’s workplace, Miami-Dade has acquired a restricted provide of monkeypox vaccines.

Beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m. high-risk residents could make a vaccine appointment at www.miamidade.gov/monkeypox or by calling 1-833-875-0900.

The appointments shall be accessible starting at two websites, one in Miami Seashore and one at Tropical Park. The county mentioned it’s working to open extra websites as extra vaccines turn out to be accessible.

The high-risk teams embrace:

• Laboratory personnel and choose well being care personnel at excessive danger for monkeypox

• Shut contacts of monkeypox instances

• Immunocompromised MSM (males who’ve intercourse with males) with HIV (<200 CD4 white blood celld per ml³)

• Different MSM with a latest historical past of a sexually transmissible illnesses (STD)

• All different MSM with HIV who had potential publicity

“Monkeypox is right here in Miami-Dade, however we’re prepared to reply and defend our neighborhood,” Levine Cava mentioned in a press release. “The COVID-19 pandemic taught us that we should act as a neighborhood to guard ourselves and one another, and we’re benefiting from the teachings realized and the sturdy infrastructure we nonetheless have in place to supply providers to these in want of safety towards this virus. In case you are eligible, we encourage you to get vaccinated towards monkeypox and we’re working arduous alongside all our companions to make extra vaccines accessible in Miami-Dade.”