San Diego County has held a handful of open vaccine clinics and has distributed some doses to local health care providers. But San Diegans at risk of contracting the virus have still been unable to get vaccinated because of a nationwide shortage.
authorized health care providers to administer the vaccine via intradermal injection, where the shot is delivered between layers of skin. Officials believe the method can offer good immunity while stretching the vaccine supply up to five-fold.
But people must be specially trained to do intradermal injections, which Tseng said San Diego County has done remarkably well. “The entire county was able to move within the course of a week from a whole process of subcutaneous to intradermal injection," Tseng said."That’s amazing for a whole county to be able to move that quickly."
The monkeypox virus causes a rash or sores that can be very painful, and many patients also develop flu-like symptoms. Tseng said you should contact your health care provider if you think you have monkeypox.Appointments to receive the monkeypox vaccine at San Diego County’s vaccine event booked up fast. In other news, a San Diego man who almost died from a heart attack has a reunion with his rescuers.
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