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As the city�s LGBTQ+ community prepares to revel in Pride
festivities this coming weekend, the mood outside of the sexual-
health clinic in Chelsea on Thursday, where hundreds of men
lined up to be vaccinated against monkeypox, was decidedly not
festive.

�The city and the federal government are not doing a great job
to protect the gay community during this outbreak,� said James
Krellenstein, an activist who managed to get an appointment and
received his first shot on Thursday. �This is a recipe for
disaster that will lead to a mass-transmission event.�

On the eve of the first Pride parade to have a full slate of
programming since the pandemic began, many in the gay community
are feeling anxious about monkeypox, the smallpox-like disease
that�s been detected in 3,500 people around the globe. While the
number of confirmed cases in the New York remains low, with 30
New Yorkers testing positive since the outbreak began, more than
half of those cases have occurred in the past week, and almost
all of them were in men who have sex with men, according to the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Monkeypox is not a
sexually transmitted disease, but it�s spread during skin-to-
skin and prolonged respiratory contact during sex. Cases in
Germany were linked to parties �where sexual activity took
place,� and Spain has traced outbreaks to a sauna in Madrid as
well as a Pride event in the Canary Islands.

�This is all because of Pride,� said Evan Ipock, gesturing at
the people in line who, like him, were waiting for hours in the
hopes of snagging a walk-in appointment. �People want to be able
to feel safe having fun this weekend.�

But a mere 275 shots were administered on Thursday, according to
the Department of Health, and the federal government has
allocated the city just 1,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine, a
smallpox vaccine that has proven to be 85 percent effective
against monkeypox. The vaccine requires two doses spread four
weeks apart to be fully effective, though a single dose has
proven to stimulate a robust antibody response in clinical
trials, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Even if
the city were to exhaust its entire allotment before the
weekend, it wouldn�t even cover the 5,000 people expected to
attend a single Pride party in Brooklyn on Sunday.

�There�s definitely people who are thinking twice about going to
the more sex-based parties, restricting their behavior. There�s
a lot of anxiety in the community,� said Aaron Lord, a Brooklyn
neurologist who was waiting for a shot. Lord said he had friends
and family who traveled to Canada, which started vaccinations
weeks ago, to get a shot.

Some of that anxiety comes from the lack of information about
the disease, the symptoms, how it�s spread, and who is at risk.

�As soon as I heard there was a vaccine, I booked it,� said Royi
Gavrielov, who got a shot after three hours. �That being said, I
didn�t know there were two versions of the vaccine, or that the
older version carried quite a bit of risk. I didn�t know that it
was a two-dose thing. I�d like to know, when exactly is it
transmissible? What should be expected between when you feel
symptoms of illness versus the actual pox appearing? How can I
know that, if I have a pimple breakout, it�s a whitehead and not
a pox? I want that information to be more available to those of
us who are seeking it out.�

According to the CDC, monkeypox symptoms usually start within
two weeks of exposure. Symptoms range from exhaustion to fever,
headache, and muscle aches. One to three days after symptoms
present, most people will develop a rash or sores around the
genitals, anus, hands, feet, chest, or face. The disease is
transmissible from the earliest onset of symptoms until the
sores or scabs have fully healed, which can take several weeks.

Recalling the earliest days of COVID, the CDC issued guidance
for lowering risk at parties, raves, and sex clubs. The
guidelines recommend people who show symptoms have virtual sex
or engage in mutual masturbation at a distance of at least six
feet. �Consider having sex with your clothes on,� reads one
bullet point.

Pride was one of the reasons Chris Adams, a nurse from Stamford,
Connecticut, drove to Chelsea upon hearing from a co-worker that
the vaccine was available. Still dressed in scrubs from work,
Adams joined the back of the queue toward the end of the day,
unsure if he�d make it to the front before supplies ran out.
�It�s unfortunate that it took so long for them to start
vaccinating,� Adams said, �but waiting is worth it for me to
feel safe.�

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/new-york-monkeypox-
vaccine-drive-is-a-recipe-for-disaster.html